Yep.
The two year thing is so that Congress would be forced to vote at least once in its term for a budget that included a standing army. They'd have to go on record.
Today, of course, our bloated defense budget makes that clause a bad joke. Which goes to show you, you can put all the safeguards you want in a document, but if powerful interests line up to destroy it (in this case the defense lobby and their conservative enablers) even down to the letter, it will be destroyed.
The two year thing is so that Congress would be forced to vote at least once in its term for a budget that included a standing army. They'd have to go on record.
Today, of course, our bloated defense budget makes that clause a bad joke. Which goes to show you, you can put all the safeguards you want in a document, but if powerful interests line up to destroy it (in this case the defense lobby and their conservative enablers) even down to the letter, it will be destroyed.