That is not one way to read it. You cannot just add whatever words you feel like, or omit as you feel.
Do you honestly think that after throwing off the most powerful army in the world with great aid of citizen soldiers they would turn around and bind those soldiers to a tyrannical government again?
I would respond .... but I just can't be bothered. I'm sure you understand that, don't you? You know how that is, don't you?