To: NYC GOP Chick
U.S. Constitution: Thirteenth Amendment - Slavery And Involuntary Servitude
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. Explain how you justify a compulsary military/national-service draft as Constitutional.
To: ctdonath2
Well, for one thing, I don't consider it to be slavery or involuntary servitude. I'd consider it an honor.
80 posted on
11/12/2003 12:01:38 PM PST by
NYC GOP Chick
(The LMDC can go to hell)
To: ctdonath2
I am neither a lawyer, nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, however I am virtually certain that the Supreme Court has ruled that conscription is not involuntary servitude under the Thirteenth Amendment, since the service members are paid wages.
84 posted on
11/12/2003 12:03:05 PM PST by
CholeraJoe
(That others may live)
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