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To: allmendream

***First, the draft is involuntary servitude.***

Not so. Here is how it was explained to me.

Back in the early days of America all men were required to be a member of the militia, to protect the people against Indian, French, and other attacks.

In a major conflict, the ARMY could levy a draft on the Militia members to use as auxiliary forces against the enemy.

When the US became a nation that militia requirement was still law.

The law was changed at the first of the 20th century.

Now the militia is divided into two parts. The ORGANIZED MILITIA, and the Unorganized Militia.

All men are a part of one of these groups. As a result, the government still has the RIGHT to levy a draft against the Unorganized Militia if needed.


61 posted on 09/15/2012 4:14:39 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

A militia raised from the population to react to a direct threat is a LOT different than conscription of young men for four years of their lives and making them live involuntarily under the UCMJ.


62 posted on 09/15/2012 4:23:51 PM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

That post is a load of gobbletygook. If nothing else, the US government has only expressly delegated powers, and such powers as are necessary to carry out those powers, and not powers which have been expressly denied. There is no delegated draft power, it is not necessary to raise an army, and it violates the ban on involuntary servitude. I don’t care what old laws you think slipped in there, which never existed in the manner you contend anyway.


65 posted on 09/15/2012 5:01:22 PM PDT by Tublecane
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