Exactly. The founders knew the danger to the Republic of “nation building”. All the morons debating the term “well trained militia” in the 2nd Amendment have not one clue what it means.
July 4 1821. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams’ Fourth of July Oration,
“America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy...She might become dictatress of the world. She would no longer be the ruler of her own spirit.”