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From: james@alberta.UUCP (James Borynec)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: The draft and the Constitution
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Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 11:22:59 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  6 11:22:59 1984
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  If the Supreme Court were ever to declare the Draft unconstitutional
it would be removing one of the greatest supports of the constitution
itself.  There are two major reasons for this:
 
 1) America needs highly trained and motivated men to defend itself.
Nowhere but in the regular army, can the required training be accomplished.
A glance at American history will be enough to assure us that the 
Militia, or Volunteers in time of war, just isn't good enough.
 
 2) America needs an Army with a stake in society.  An Army composed
entirely of long service regulars will tend to drift away from society
an be loyal only to itself.  A look at South America will show us that
a just legal system cannot exist side by side with an army with only
internal loyalties.  For those of you who don't think that it can 
happen in the good ol' US of A, look up some of the dictatorial powers
that G. Washington had given to him by Congress during the Revolutionary
war.
 
 
  Aside from its legal responsibilities, a Court must never forget
that it has a moral and political resposibility to uphold the Nation
that established the court itself.  To do otherwise would be self-defeating.
 

                                          Y. H. and O. S.
                                          Jim Borynec
                                          ..alberta!james
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