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One tied to becoming a full voting citizen. -- Call it a boot camp for the franchise. -- No service, no vote.

Read Starship Troopers by Heinlein.

Military service OR a somewhat longer term in social/community service or no franchise.

Interesting read even with out the bugs.

Heinlein pointed out a few times that he wasn't quite advocating such a system, he was just saying it could be made to work. He definitely had contempt for general conscription, believing that a nation that needed it to defend itself didn't deserve to be defended.

It's important to note that all the men and women in Iraq today and at Pendleton volunteered before they had any formal military training.

-Eric

[tpaine]

One tied to becoming a full voting citizen. -- Call it a boot camp for the franchise. -- No service, no vote.
tpaine


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Read Starship Troopers by Heinlein.
Military service OR a somewhat longer term in social/community service or no franchise.
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Heinlein pointed out a few times that he wasn't quite advocating such a system, he was just saying it could be made to work.

He definitely had contempt for general conscription, believing that a nation that needed it to defend itself didn't deserve to be defended.
It's important to note that all the men and women in Iraq today and at Pendleton volunteered before they had any formal military training.
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I'm not advocating general conscription for military training.

I'm saying we should have a voluntary 'basic training' in full citizenship for every person who wants to vote.

We would still have completely independant fully volunteer combat forces structured as they are at present.