"Where is it written in the Constitution," he [Daniel Webster] demanded..."

"Where is it written in the Constitution," he [Daniel Webster] demanded, "in what article or section is it contained, that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war, in which the folly or the wickedness of Government may engage it?"  The draft was irreconcilable with both the principles of a free society and the provisions of the Constitution.  "In granting Congress the power to raise armies," Webster explained, "the people have granted all the means which are ordinary and usual, and which are consistent with the liberties and security of the people themselves, and they have granted no others... A free government with arbitrary means to administer it is a contradiction; a free government without adequate provisions for personal security is absurdity; a free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription, is a solecism, at once the most ridiculous and abominable that ever entered into the head of man."
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Young people are not raw material to be employed by the political class on behalf of whatever fashionable political, military, or social cause catches its fancy.  In a free society, their lives are not the play-things of government."  -Pages 56 & 58 of The Revolution, A Manifesto