time to end draft registration, and for Rand to own this issue

[CPUd]

The SCOTUS ruled that the draft is not involuntary servitude (as prohibited by the 13th Amendment) because:
Congress can declare war
Congress can raise and support armies
Congress is representative of the people
The people can not logically impose involuntary servitude on themselves (or rather, they have not seen an argument to the contrary).

Arver v United States

 

[alucard13mm]

I think its pretty lame and unequal how boys and men is required to sign up for Selective Service, ESPECIALLY if they want to go to college and get federal college grants.

Women get grants too.. but dont have to sign up. lol Equality. horray.

 

[dude58677]

The SCOTUS ruled that the draft is not involuntary servitude (as prohibited by the 13th Amendment) because:
Congress can declare war
Congress can raise and support armies
Congress is representative of the people
The people can not logically impose involuntary servitude on themselves (or rather, they have not seen an argument to the contrary).

Arver v United States

The case was wrongly decided and second of all they do NOT have a monopoly on the Constitution. According to the preamble of the bill of rights this would be judicial abuse of power.

 

[jmdrake]

Military is an exception. The Congress can raise and support armies. Conscription was a very familiar concept in the 18th century; if the founders intended to forbid conscription, they most likely would have written it in explicitly.

Except we didn't do conscription in this country until the U.S. Civil War and the South did it first. So one would think that if founders were considering conscription then conscription would have been used at least in the War of 1812, which at one point we were badly losing. That said, those who passed the XIII amendment, who of course were not the founders, obviously didn't have a problem with conscription since they had just used it.

 

[jmdrake]

The SCOTUS ruled that the draft is not involuntary servitude (as prohibited by the 13th Amendment) because:
Congress can declare war
Congress can raise and support armies
Congress is representative of the people
The people can not logically impose involuntary servitude on themselves (or rather, they have not seen an argument to the contrary).

Arver v United States

Congress is representative of the people? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!

Anyway, take that argument further.

Armies need clothes.
Clothing comes from cotton and wool.
Since the representatives of the people cannot impose involuntary servitude on themselves it is fine for Congress to force people to work on cotton plantations and sheep ranches and in any other service needed for the army.

Yet another laughable "opinion" by the SCOTUS.