Conscription Issues

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• Anti-Conscription  - Directory of anti-conscription resources includes links to movements, literature, and articles.
• The Crime of Conscription  - Rep. Ron Paul, MD shares his thoughts about why he considers the draft not only immoral, but also illegal.
• Draft Registration: The Politics of Institutional Immorality  - Sets forth an anti-draft position for the Institute, beginning with an introduction of the Carter Administration's re-institution of the draft.
• Draft Resistance  - Advocates for the resistance to the registration laws in the United States.
• Neither Fair Nor Useful  - Site of an Italian movement for the abolition of military conscription and mandatory civil service.
• No-Conscription Fellowship  - Conveys the message for men to refuse forced civil and war service.
• Proclamation Establishing Conscription  - This is the actual proclamation of President Woodrow Wilson re-establishing the draft on May 28, 1917, due to the progress of World War I.