[untrained skeptic]

This is an oxymoron - there can't be any small-government liberals. Liberals need a large, intrusive government to impose their selected views on the country as a whole.

I meant liberal in the actual menaing of the word liberal which is less restrictive.

Political "liberals" here in the US are anything but liberal.

I could have made myself more clear.

I also agree with your statements in your post.

[CatoRenasci]

I meant liberal in the actual meaning of the word liberal which is less restrictive.

In political science, historical, and philosophical writing, the accepted term to use when you mean 'liberal' in the old 18th and 19th century sense is classical liberal.