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Where on Earth did you get that? Have you actually read the Constitution?

13th Amendment, involuntary servitude.

You may be intellectually challenged, the 13th Amendment abolishes"slavery", not defending one's country!

If you are unable to stop insulting me, we will have no further discussion. I may not agree with you, but that does not make me "intellectually challenged."

I am an undergraduate currently dual enrolled in graduate courses and have studied Constitutional law under both scholars of the Supreme Court and of Constitutional law.

The Amendment says, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States"

It is in my opinion that compulsory conscription falls under the above category. Congress' right to "raise and support Armies," is not enough.

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Carpenter, that isn't entirely accurate. The government has implemented three drafts in US history despite one's "involuntary servitude".

Your comment implies that the US government cannot do something that is unconstitutional. That's obviously not true.

No, my comment implies that the government CAN do something "unconstitutional" by your standards.. but what you call "unconstitutional" was surely not the case. The draft is constitutional as long as it is written in accord with the practices of America's two world wars, which allowed some objections to armed service.

Well, I am not a graduate student anymore or a lawyer, but I believe the 13th Amendment is unchanged from 1941 through 1946. Was the draft that existed right through the Vietnam war unconstitutional? The Supreme Court has been so fickle. Are they changing laws now? Isn't that unconstitutional?

Sorry Laserbeam, all I learned from DC is that lawyers in politics is a conflict of interest.

Fortunately they had both for World War Two. What we have now is an essential need that is easily avoided by children of privilege! Why should risking ones life be based on family resources? There are no Kennedy family members serving in the Military anymore (JFK relatives), because they don't have to.

Both have been possible for much of history. Again, I just think that on average, the caliber of people serving will be higher with an all-volunteer force than one that includes conscription.