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To: cgk
"Whether a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people"

Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution:

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

I sense a conflict.

149 posted on 03/19/2009 12:27:01 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (A trillion here, a trillion there, and pretty soon you are talking about Zimbabwe money.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

I sense a lot of conservatives about to be ‘duly convicted’!!
God help us all!


156 posted on 03/19/2009 12:33:33 PM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
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To: Uncle Miltie; TheDon

I quoted the 13th Amendment to both my Congressman’s and Senator’s offices when I chastised them (through their staffers) for voting for an unconstitutional bill that they had NO idea had language like “mandatory” written into it


167 posted on 03/19/2009 1:06:59 PM PDT by cgk (I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

The first black president brings back slavery. Oh, the irony...


212 posted on 03/19/2009 11:30:20 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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