Should a US war require a national vote, and those who voted yes are required to serve/drafted first?

[CaptainObivous]

Yes

No

[Dargil]

How about this. Those people who pay the highest amount of taxes to the federal government should be required to serve or have their children serve. What do you think about that?

[SeekerOfTruth007]

No, it shouldn't.

Votes take too long to set up. That's why the President has war powers given to him by the Senate and the Constitution to begin with.

[NoDecision]

I think the illegals should be drafted first. Let them earn their citizenship.

[WindAtMyBack]

It's a representative system, not mob rule. There should never be a national vote on anything.

[msc545]

No, except I think there should be a special provision for people who write stupid questions like this one and those people should have to go fight whether they voted for it or not.

[CaptainObivous]

How is this question stupid? There was an amendment proposed 1916 for the public vote on war, with the provision that everyone who voted yes would be required to register for military service. There was another amendment proposed in the 1930's for a national vote to go to war, but lost traction after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

[exitseven]

No, nobody wants war but sometimes it is necessary,

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Wasn’t that in an amendment somewhere?

[CaptainObivous]

No, there was something similar proposed in the early 1900's but it never wen't anywhere.

[Jeff51]

Nope