What is a standing army?

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"Based upon American’s own experience of “martial law” imposed upon them by “standing armies”, the abhorrence of military rule became ingrained in our form of government."
https://constitutionalmilitia.org/standing-armies/

"The Military in 32 countries will activate Martial Law against riots on food shortages, gas shortages, Vaccine Mandates, forced vaccines/lockdowns as citizens of the world rise against the Deep State Plandemic.
The Martial Law will be an excuse by White Hats to bring in Military in all major countries."
https://operationdisclosureofficial.com/2022/01/19/special-restored-republic-via-a-gcr-report-as-of-january-19-2022/

"a standing army was potentially dangerous, they said, and so need not be large; but America, as a unified extended republic secure between two oceans, did not have to fear a permanent military establishment.

Some libertarians believe that since Americans opposed a standing army, as the vocal Anti-Federalists did, the Constitution forbade it. That is clearly not the case. No prohibition is to be found, a fact punctuated by the Third Amendment, which prohibits the quartering of troops in people’s home without consent in peacetime. Obviously, that could be an issue only with a peacetime standing army"
https://original.antiwar.com/srichman/2016/02/26/the-constitution-and-the-standing-army/

"The Constitution’s “army clause,” which allowed the U.S. Congress to raise and support armies with biennial funds, sparked a nation-wide debate that pitted tradition against innovation, precedent against necessity, and federalism against nationalism."
https://allthingsliberty.com/2018/05/standing-armies-the-anti-federalists-and-federalists-constitutional-debate/

"Article I, Section 8, Clause 12:

[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; . . .
Time Limit on Appropriations for the Army

Prompted by the fear of standing armies to which Story alluded, the framers inserted the limitation that "no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years.""
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI_S8_C12_1_1/

"A standing army is a permanent, often professional, army. It is composed of full-time soldiers who may be either career soldiers or conscripts. It differs from army reserves, who are enrolled for the long term, but activated only during wars or natural disasters, and temporary armies, which are raised from the civilian population only during a war or threat of war and disbanded once the war or threat is over."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_army

Joe Biden Pressured to Defund the Military, End Space Force as President
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/16/democrats-progressives-want-biden-defund-the-military-end-space-force-he-becomes-president/

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