Do you think anyone would be displaying those stupid Ukraine flags all over their homes and social media pages if several hundred thousand Americans were being drafted to fight over there?
Yes, it is unconstitutional.
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.
because the standing U.S. policy of endless wars will come to an end for political reasons.
Look at Vietnam. The government was able to conscript 2 million soldiers for the war.
” “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.””
The 13th Amendment could not be more clear. One of the reasons it stopped after Vietnam and did not continue into peacetime was that cases were headed to the court that is sure to reverse the Wilson era sophistry.
Wilson started the draft for WWI. His reasoning in that fevered era was that the entire nation had volunteered thought their representatives when they declared war on Germany. And that he was not drafting, he was merely “selecting” form a giant pool of volunteers.
It’s very unconstitutional and would not survive today.