“But one thing that makes it harder to go to war is to have a draft, because when you have a draft, then everybody’s got a stake in it, and the costs of war are brought home much more vividly and vigorously to the American people.”
I’m sure a web search will turn up all sorts of quotes by the Founders showing their views on filling military ranks from the people at large as opposed to maintaing an equivilently sized standing army of professionals.
Standing armies were viewed as dangerous to the founders. The system they created was a citizen militia. This is NOT the system we have today, no matter how the Feds fudge the wording of current law.