The United States government was established by a people fighting for civil rights and freedom. The forefathers of the country wrote the Constitution based on personal freedoms and rights the constituents of the newly formed United States had been denied in their homeland of England. As citizens of the United States, the people of this country take their civil rights very seriously. Freedom of choice is one of the rights that the citizens of the United States live their lives by. I believe that compelling a person to work for the state is involuntary servitude and thus I argue against conscription.
According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights published by the United Nations, Article 4 states "No one shall be held in (…) servitude (…)".Conscription can be viewed as a form of slavery because people are being held in servitude. Conscription requires mandatory military service which is in turn servitude. The declaration also allows that people be able to move from state......

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Title: Freedom
Approximate Word Count: 534
Approximate Pages: 3 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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