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To: Held_to_Ransom; 4ConservativeJustices
No, not swap units. That's your edit. Reorganize. There's a very significant difference.

Here's a newsflash for you Llan-ey: The confederate constitution permitted the CSA government to "provide for organizing" of the state militias and to call up their use to be "employed in the service of the Confederate States." That is not a "draft" by any reasonable sense of the term.

That is simply an exercise of the confederate CONSTITUTIONAL jurisdiction over its militias. The constitution said they could pass laws organizing those militias into a military. It said they could pass laws placing them into the command of the CSA. And that is exactly what the CSA congress did.

That you evidently find this provision to be offensive is further evidence of your own historical ignorance as that clause was essentially taken verbatim out of the 1787 US Constitution's Article I, Section 8, Clause 16 with the name "United States" replaced by "Confederate States." If you have a problem with the way the confederates set up their army through the CS constitution then you also have a problem with the way the founders did it in the US constitution.

As for the wholly unsubstantiated and unsourced remainder of your rant I hereby banish it in a word. Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur. And do have a nice day!

1,178 posted on 10/16/2003 10:19:12 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist
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To: GOPcapitalist
That is simply an exercise of the confederate CONSTITUTIONAL jurisdiction over its militias. The constitution said they could pass laws organizing those militias into a military. It said they could pass laws placing them into the command of the CSA. And that is exactly what the CSA congress did

But the Konfederat KonsKription AKt was not part of the Konfederat Konstitution, but a separate aKt of the Konfederat Kongress. And, it explicitly conscripted all men between the ages of 18 and 35, whether in the service of the National government or the state at the whim of the Davis GOvernment. That's KonsKription GopKapotalist, and nothing else. No Konfederat Kould ever say he served with honor beKause of it.

1,179 posted on 10/16/2003 11:39:55 PM PDT by Held_to_Ransom
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