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The Founders were actually crazy. They did not even believe that we should have a standing army! So, if we want to be strict Constitutionalists, we need to bulldoze the Pentagon and wipe out the US Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force. In lieu of an army, a marine corps, a navy and an air force, the founders thought we should have a militia instead.
So the very existence of the US Military itself violates the spirit of the Constitution! In lieu of the Pentagon, an armed militia. Keep in mind that this militia-army had just defeated the British Army. Fear of a standing army continued all through the Revolution and this silly fear almost kept us from winning the war. This is the modern NRA view of the Second Amendment:
The purpose of the second amendment was to ensure that the people would be able to resist a tyrannical state.
No more, no less.
This view is simply false. It could be called the modern, 21st Century Libertarian view. However, the wording makes it quite clear that this is not what they intended at all. The amendment explicitly states that the militias are for “the security of a free state,” that is, the militias are the equivalent of the US military – the militias were to be the armed forces of the state itself, not to overthrow the state, tyrannical or otherwise.
The Federalists were the rightwing section of the Founders, led by elitist and advocate of aristocratic rule Alexander Hamilton. One of the events that led to the thinking behind the 2nd Amendment was Shay’s Rebellion, which was a guerrilla war against the US government. The Founders were very alarmed by this subversive movement to violently overthrow the government, and the militias of the 2nd Amendment were specifically intended to be the armed forces of the state to protect the state against subversion by violent revolutionaries. The modern view would be that the Federalists thought the 2nd Amendment was intended to spur on revolt’s like Shay’s Rebellion. That is most certainly not the case.