[Mark Bahner]

It depends on which Classical Liberal writer you're looking at as to the degree of conformity. In the case of someone like John Stuart Mill, absolutely that is the case.

Yes, John Stuart Mill was definitely a libertarian. But he was a Brit. I'm talking about the guys who started the American revolution, and founded this country: Tom Paine, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, James Madison, and others. The closest modern Party to what those revolutionaries and founders were would be the Libertarian Party.

[RogueIsland]

I'm talking about the guys who started the American revolution, and founded this country:

And they were pretty much to a man heavily influenced by the politcal theories of Locke, Mill, Rousseau, and some others.

[RogueIsland]

Of course, I'm now officially an idiot, since Mill was born in 1806. :-( Oh well, hit me with a wet noodle.

[Always Right]

The closest modern Party to what those revolutionaries and founders were would be the Libertarian Party.

In some ways that is true, but our Founding Fathers believed in a moral compass, something today's Libertarians lack.