The above article states in no uncertain terms that Congress' has the power "To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years." Indeed, the United States, does have an army, and that army has what appears to be a continuous appropriation of massive amounts of money, far exceeding a term of a mere two years, that whether in war time or peace, seems to invariably increase, year by year, thereby signifying the rather obvious, that the United States most definitely has had for numerous years, a standing army.
The thing about standing armies is that when the government has its own army that answers exclusively to those that are the power behind the Presidential throne, then this is really not a country run by the consent of the governed, or even necessarily a democracy, but in reality, seems to be a country that has the illusion of such, but essentially is run by those that control the military forces that this country has an obvious abundance of. While it may be true, someday, that such an army may be turned against its own people, we know for a certainty, that standing armies aren't much good to the powers that be, unless they are actively engaged in foreign military adventures or misadventures, because if there doesn't appear to be an abiding need for armed forces, then the public might well come to the rather sensible conclusion, that all the money and resources so being spent, could be more appropriately earmarked somewhere else, and thereby be of more tangible use to the people, who after all are the ones that are taxed for such.
The United States Constitution as ratified was specifically created as a document that properly was leery of as well as being quite wary of this country ever having an established military institution, separate from the people, and answerable only to those that were its elite masters. Yet, this is exactly what has occurred, in which, this country has an extremely powerful and very entitled military-industrial-technological complex that flexes its muscles all over the world, thereby making the United States always involved in some way or manner in every foreign affair that catches its fancy or interest. Whether this is good or bad, depends upon a given person's point of view as well as knowledge, but the more entanglements such a military involves itself in, the more the citizens of this fine land, are themselves involved in such, of which it is those citizens that are subsequently held accountable by those foreign actors.
Nothing will change in this government, of, for, and by the people, until such a time as a meaningful and significant cut to the budget is made to that military establishment, and made on an ongoing and permanent basis. The fact that such is not occurring and does not appear to be in the cards to occur regrettably signifies the self-evident, which is that those that ostensibly are at the highest echelon of power within this nation, answer first and foremost to that military-industrial-technological complex or they do not live to see another day.