Maybe they couldn’t perceive a Congress that would give up its powers without a fight. One party makes secret promise to never call for a recount if fraud was prevalent in an election, they promise to do the people’s bidding only to cave tot he president, although I’d say that it doesn’t look to me like they are caving...that would infer there had been some sort of fight first. There never is one. What other secret deals have the republicans made with the democrats?
Actually, I am not sure that our Founders/Framers would be terribly surprised at the mess that we are now in. They would be appalled and grieved, to be sure, but we are right now in the mess that they tried to block. They did everything they could—but we failed them for the very reasons that they feared in us. (See my post, above.)