SENATE BILL: Anti-Conscription Amendment (Failed)

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

This bloody thing again!

This caused all kinds of drama last time, but it is Wormy.

Again I'll make my position on this clear, I dislike conscription, and we should take all legislative measures to make it all-but-impossible to impose conscription, but a constitutional amendment will bind future Senates without regard for future circumstances.

I'm not going to engage on this issue too much, except to say, I support the intent, but I will oppose any constitutional amendment, let alone one as clumsy and inflexible as that.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

We agree Yankee...

But I'm concerned this is going to turn into another slanging match... when this came up during my time as a Senator, I strongly opposed this, then decided it should be decided by the people, but I would campaign against it.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

The White House would certainly be more comfortable with Senator Ben's proposal.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

A possible suggestion, similar to the amendments TJ and I wrote up when this thing emerged before was to place strict conditions
a) that it could only happen if the Atlasian homeland was attacked
b) that there were exclusions for single-parent households, students, existing emergency workers and other essential service workers

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Isn't this just verging off into some random tangent...