Our Founding Fathers saw what happens in a “Democracy” in France, post-revolution.
They wanted to shield us from a “Mobocracy”!
The French Revolution was a response to the American Revolution. (Louis, be careful what you wish for!) The American states had functioning and relatively free governments. The experiment with the Articles of Confederation revealed the problems, especially common defense, with an overly weak central government. The Constitution was largely just a framework for a stronger central government. The Bill or Rights was an insurance policy against government encroachment on our rights.
The New Deal and judicial activism by its resultant "enlighted*" judges have eroded our freedoms and nurtured the Levithan that the founders feared.
Peter Stzrok and Merrick Garland are Leviathan's shock troops and Gauleiters.
*Enlighted is old school for "woke". Deutschland Erwacht! is their precedent and guidebook.