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.
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."
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.
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
FUCK THE POLICE (04-28-2017), Lightbringer (04-28-2017)
domer76 (04-21-2017)
"Government is force by definition and corruption by nature. The bigger the government, the greater the force and the greater the corruption."
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
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.
"Government is force by definition and corruption by nature. The bigger the government, the greater the force and the greater the corruption."
"Government is force by definition and corruption by nature. The bigger the government, the greater the force and the greater the corruption."
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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