Speaking of standing armies, Virginia's Declaration of Rights was written before the US Constitution:

Section 13. That a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.

We have come a long way since then. People forget that early Americans were willing to die to fight a powerful imperial army. Now our army has become the same.

I walked by a car while going to work the other day, and it had a bumper sticker that said, "Make America Great Britain Again." Oh yeah? Sic semper tyrannis, mf'er.