Reply #18: If they were magically teleported to today, they would all

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be so right-wing that they would make Ron Paul look positively centrist. They imagined an exceedingly limited government of, by, and for the landholding, well-educated, upper-class white-male gentry.

Not that it really matters. They were extraordinarily liberal in their day, and it's not fair to judge historical figures except in comparison to the zeitgeist of their era.