Well said, CDY.
The founders feared two things: Excessive power of government, and mob rule.
The French Revolution, just a few years after the American War of Independence, opted for mobocracy, aka Jacobinism, which was a direct precursor of communism.
https://www.marxists.org/history/france/revolution/mathiez/1920/bolshevism-jacobinism.htm
Correct. The terms ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ to describe the radical and conservative ideologies of the time, were coined during the French Revolution