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From: eder@ssc-vax.UUCP (Dani Eder)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Military conscription/slavery
Message-ID: <376@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Jan-85 22:54:05 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 23 22:54:05 1985
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[24 January 1985]

     The US Constitution, Amendment 5 says, in part:

	"...nor shall private property be taken for public use without
        just compensation."

     The US Supreme Court has said:

        "Labor is deemed to be property..." [State v Muller, 28 S Ct 324]

     Put those two together, and it seems to me that conscription, or
the taking of your labor for a period of years, might be justifiable
under the principle of Eminent Domain, but the payment to the 
conscripted soldier must be equal to the market value of his (her)
labor during the years of conscription.  Please do not make the
mistake of thinking I agree with this opinion.  I am merely drawing
a conclusion from US law as it exists.

     
Dani Eder / Boeing /. ssc-vax!eder