Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihu1g.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!ihu1g!fish From: fish@ihu1g.UUCP (Bob Fishell) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: The draft and the Constitution Message-ID: <245@ihu1g.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Mar-84 17:17:35 EST Article-I.D.: ihu1g.245 Posted: Fri Mar 9 17:17:35 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Mar-84 01:12:55 EST References: <1165@sdccs7.UUCP> <131@alberta.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 10 The constitutionality of the draft has been tested in the Supreme Court before, the first case being brought up during the First World War. The argument was that it voilated the "involuntary servitude" clause of the 12th [?] amendment. However, it was upheld because the litigants had not been denied due process of law. -- Bob Fishell ihnp4!ihu1g!fish