Reply #138: I'm wondering [View All]

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does Congress have to pass a law to undue the 1973 end to a draft? As Commander in Chief, can an executive order do it? Fought in the court's, with a right wing judge/SC upholding it? Particularly if there is a "stated emergency?" Hell, we go to WAR without a constitutionally required Congressional declaration -- reinstating a draft seems like nothing compared to that. The only thing Congress would have at its disposal is the purse string -- but as we know from the defiance of the Bollman Amendment during Contra gate, that doesn't mean anything, either.