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    Quote Amendment 13: 1. 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, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

    Supreme Court precedent dictates in a “supposed” land of the brave and the “FREE,” that a military draft is constitutional.

    I have read many of the what I call excuses for that court decision and find them absurd and some even laughable.

    The elementary text of amendment 13 makes is perfectly clear to me that until or unless a constitutional amendment is authored, offered and passed by the Congress and ratified by 3/4 of the States, to make an exception for military conscription as is now prohibited by amendment 13, forcing Americans or anybody to serve in the United States military against their will is slavery and or involuntary servitude and totally unconstitutional regardless of any absurd excuses politicians and courts can come up with.

    Why am I wrong?
    "Government is force by definition and corruption by nature. The bigger the government, the greater the force and the greater the corruption."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Robo View Post
    Quote Amendment 13: 1. 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, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

    Supreme Court precedent dictates in a “supposed” land of the brave and the “FREE,” that a military draft is constitutional.

    I have read many of the what I call excuses for that court decision and find them absurd and some even laughable.

    The elementary text of amendment 13 makes is perfectly clear to me that until or unless a constitutional amendment is authored, offered and passed by the Congress and ratified by 3/4 of the States, to make an exception for military conscription as is now prohibited by amendment 13, forcing Americans or anybody to serve in the United States military against their will is slavery and or involuntary servitude and totally unconstitutional regardless of any absurd excuses politicians and courts can come up with.

    Why am I wrong?
    Involuntary servitude refers to slaves. Slaves are not Citizens. The draft is different. Citizens can be drafted.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chlorate View Post
    Because part of our law comes from tradition, and dating back to the Roman Republic, military service was a civic duty. Your view of conscription is barely a half century old.
    My view of conscription as it relates to the Constitution is viewed as a contradiction and thereby unconstitutional.
    "Government is force by definition and corruption by nature. The bigger the government, the greater the force and the greater the corruption."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Robo View Post
    My view of conscription as it relates to the Constitution is viewed as a contradiction and thereby unconstitutional.
    And, like always, you're stupid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Guille View Post
    Involuntary servitude refers to slaves. Slaves are not Citizens. The draft is different. Citizens can be drafted.
    Amendment 14 says everybody that has been born in the United States is a "citizen," and if conscription isn't involuntary servitude and involuntary servitude isn't slavery, what the fuck is it? Please dispense with the absurdities!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Robo View Post
    My view of conscription as it relates to the Constitution is viewed as a contradiction and thereby unconstitutional.
    Was it viewed as a contradiction by the framers? By the authors of the 13th? In 1917, 1941, 1950, 1955, or 1964? It took the unpopularity of Vietnam for your view to be formulated.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Robo View Post
    Amendment 14 says everybody that has been born in the United States is a "citizen," and if conscription isn't involuntary servitude and involuntary servitude isn't slavery, what the fuck is it? Please dispense with the absurdities!
    You're wrong, it doesn't say that. Read it again nitwit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Guille View Post
    And, like always, you're stupid.
    And as always, you can't make a rational or honest argument as to whyI'm stupid, huh?
    "Government is force by definition and corruption by nature. The bigger the government, the greater the force and the greater the corruption."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Robo View Post
    And as always, you can't make a rational or honest argument as to whyI'm stupid, huh?
    Citizens have rights...and responsibilities. Now tell me how the draft is wrong you libertarian piece of shit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chlorate View Post
    Was it viewed as a contradiction by the framers? By the authors of the 13th? In 1917, 1941, 1950, 1955, or 1964? It took the unpopularity of Vietnam for your view to be formulated.
    All of that is perfectly irrelevant because amendment 13 says what it says. please interpret the actual dictionary definitions of the 13th's text and tell me any of your argument has any relevancy to what the amendment actually says.

    You also ignore my opinion that if congress ever considered it should not pertain to a military draft, it would have said as much, (it doesn't), and no amendment has never been offered to say a military draft is not to be considered as involuntary servitude or slavery or to be in contradiction to amendment 13, and is a must to make a draft constitutional.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Guille View Post
    You're wrong, it doesn't say that. Read it again nitwit.
    What does it say?
    "Government is force by definition and corruption by nature. The bigger the government, the greater the force and the greater the corruption."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Guille View Post
    Citizens have rights...and responsibilities. Now tell me how the draft is wrong you libertarian piece of shit.
    Then citizens have the right to refuse conscription because it's in violation of amendment 12, right? Citizens have the responsibility to refuse to be enslaved by unconstitutional BIG daddy government's illegal, unconstitutional laws and actions, right commie?
    "Government is force by definition and corruption by nature. The bigger the government, the greater the force and the greater the corruption."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Robo View Post
    Then citizens have the right to refuse conscription because it's in violation of amendment 12, right? Citizens have the responsibility to refuse to be enslaved by unconstitutional BIG daddy government's illegal, unconstitutional laws and actions, right commie?
    The 12th Amendment has nothing to do with military service.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chlorate View Post
    Because part of our law comes from tradition, and dating back to the Roman Republic, military service was a civic duty. Your view of conscription is barely a half century old.
    right. and the colonial army forced every able bodied man to wear their uniform and fight for them.

    how do people this stupid make it this far in life???????
    A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.

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