Freedom was the issue.
Freedom is the absence of coercion.
And picking nits and semantics is counterproductive.
And yet the Founders formed a government that embodies in its Constitution the principles of state coercion in fundamental ways, such as the authority to levy taxes, create a standing army and navy, eminent domain, search and seizure, and so on.
Their vision was not anarchy, but rather a decent balance between state power and individual freedom. They envisioned a far more limited government than we now have. But as John Adams noted, such government works only if the people under it are otherwise constrained by "moral and religious" principles which would make government redundant. Limited government becomes less and less viable as people begin to lose their moral constraints.
And picking nits and semantics is counterproductive.
Alas, sometimes those nits need to be picked before you discover that they're not nits after all. You seem to have lost sight of the fact that the Founders were not opposed to government per se.