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Politics is dominated by partisanship. It's all red team versus blue team. Most people show far more loyalty to their party and its leaders than they do to constitutional principles.
For many of the founders, property rights were the foundation of all the others. James Madison took things even further, arguing that people not only have a right to property, but also a property in their rights - tying property rights, self ownership and all natural rights together.
Submission is the fastest road to total tyranny.
Despite writing on the Constitution for decades - few people today seem to even know the name Lysander Spooner. And most who do, rarely know more than one quote. Time to turn that around.
All the founders agreed that standing armies were a great threat to liberty. The only debate was really the best way to prevent those dangers. But they didn’t come up with this view on their own - it was part of a very long tradition that was opposed to large, permanent military establishments.