The Military draft is the practice of a government forcibly conscripting members of the population into the armed forces. This is a violation of the right to life , and a betrayal of the purpose of the government. A free nation will have no lack of volunteers to defend their freedom against aggression. A man will fight for his freedom. He won't fight for some cause he doesn't understand or believe in. Volunteer armies are an excellent check on statist governments declaring arbitrary and unnecessary wars -- if there is no conscription, the statists will have no army for their power-lust causes. The first U.S. draft occurred during the Civil War; they're after, the only major conflict Washington fought without compulsory military service was the Spanish American War. In1940 Congress approved the first peacetime draft, and conscription continued, with one brief break, until 1973. At that time President Richard Nixon inaugurated the All-Volunteer Force (AVF), in part to help dissipate social conflict over the Vietnam War. There is no doubt that the volunteer system has succeeded in peacetime. The military has had no trouble in filling its ranks with top-quality people--young men and woman who are, in fact, better educated and brighter than their civilian counterparts. A Government is an organization in a specific geographic location, which is dominant in physical force. Government is necessary to en

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