Go back a little further. The French Revolution was the Anarchy that the Founders feared. That it wasn't real "anarchy", but a rule by the Mob (Democracy), this didn't keep them from using the term although they rightly feared a pure Democracy for this very reason.
Political "Anarchy" is the following:
an⋅ar⋅chy
/ˈæn
ərki/ 
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–noun
| 1. |
a state of society without government or law. |
| 2. |
political and social disorder due to the absence of governmental control: The death of the king was followed by a year of anarchy. |
| 3. |
a theory that regards the absence of all direct or coercive government as a political ideal and that proposes the cooperative and voluntary association of individuals and groups as the principal mode of organized society. |
| 4. |
confusion; chaos; disorder: Intellectual and moral anarchy followed his loss of faith. |
Origin: 1530–40; (< MF
anarchie or ML
anarchia) < Gk,
anarchía lawlessness, lit., lack of a leader, equiv. to
ánarch(
os) leaderless (
an- an- 1 +
arch(
ós) leader +
-os adj. suffix) +
-ia -y 3
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