If here today, our Founding Fathers would call themselves Libertarians and vote accordingly.

There is no way you could say our founding fathers would be libertarian. To assume that they would all subscribe to that political preference shows a poor understanding of history. First, the founding fathers were no difference than modern politicians. They disagreed on almost everything. THomas Jefferson was a raving liberal. He lived for the small man, trying to find every way to help the poor. George Washington was a moderate conservative. He favored a larger, more controlling and more executive government (though he never verbally subscribed to any political preference). John Adams makes Fred Thompson look like Hillary Clinton. He was all for complete government control. In fact, it was his administration that saw the passing of the Alien and Sedition Acts, laws that denied anyone from speaking poorly about government officials. The laws were taken off of the books in 1801 when Thomas Jefferson was inaugerated. Our founding fathers were also the founders of our first poltical parties, the Democratic-Republicans and the Federalists. I gauruntee you that Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, George Washington (three who largely supported federalist ideas) make conservatives today look like radical leftists. These three would have never adopted the libertarion train of thought. Those who supported the Democratic Republicans such as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, lived for the backwoods farmer. They would give them government assistance whenever they could. They could never be a libertarian because they would never be able to keep their hands off... Also, you cited some ideas in your first paragraph I definatly need to argue. You said, "The architects of our constitution had the chance to write govenerment-sponsored healthcare into the constitution, but did not. Though they had the chance to impose a federal income tax, but did not. Though they had the change to create a government that offered handouts to it's subjects, but did not. Though they had a chance to impose gun control, but did not. Though they had the opportunity to outlaw certain sexual behavior, but did not." Dude get real. Do you honestly expect the founding fathers to pencil in government healthcare when they lived in a century when healthcare was not only not a crisis, but barely of importance. There were no hospitals, there was no in health insurance, and there was no healthcare industry...They didnt leave government sponsored healthcare out because they didnt believe in it, they left it out because the idea didnt even exist yet. They didnt enact a federal income tax because many people didnt have a stable income. Instead they taxed things such as luxury goods, imports, and whiskey. In fact, until Thomas Jefferson was President, peasants were constantly revolting over the high tax rates levied by there founding fathers. The Whiskey rebellion, the worst of these, was raised when the government placed a high tax on alcohol. Gun control was something that could never have been used in the 18th century. In fact, placed in the right era, the second amendment is kind of a Duh! statement. People needed to people able to hunt meat. Businesses relied on free gun use to hunt furs. Settlers relied on free gun use to protect themselves from natives. The founding fathers could never have passed gun control laws. The long and short is this. -The founding fathers chose not to pass government healthcare because the industry of healthcare didnt even exist yet, not because they were agaisnt it. -The founding fathers didnt pass income taxes because everyone was a farmer whose income was too unstable to tax. Instead they passed high taxes on goods. They didnt leave out income taxes because they didnt like them. -The founding fathers didnt pass gun control because people lives Depended on guns. They needed them for protection, for their businesses, and for their food. In the 18th century, passing gun control laws would have been like passing taxes on water... The point is, our founding fathers were not simply Libertarian, they were as politically diverse as we are today. They would have been republicans, democrats, libertarians, and even socialists. Your argument is too broad of characterization for such a large and politically diverse group of men.