A New Amendment to the Constitution of the United States?
AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
No person shall be eligible to hold elective office, appointed office, or employment with the United States, who has not honorably served a minimum of two years active duty in the armed forces of the United States or served a minimum of sixty days deployment in a war zone as a Guardsman or Reservist.
For persons deemed physically ineligible for the military, two years alternative service, to be designated or instituted by the Congress, shall substitute for Military service..
Honorable discharge from the military, due to service connected wounds, injury, or illness, shall establish eligibility for the purposes of this amendment.
The provisions of this amendment shall not apply to those holding office or employment at the time of ratification.
Give me a little feedback on the idea. A movement is in the works. Those who are unwilling to serve, risk, and sacrifice for this country should not be running it.
2012-11-09T15:55:13Z
Not just talking about the PRESIDENT. Senators and Representatives are included. Getting a lot of "NO" answers without rational argument.
Anonymous2012-11-09T15:47:44Z
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LOVE IT~~~ but he democrats would never go for it They don't like our military.
If you let people obtain a waiver (alternative service) then those in power will find a way to abuse the system and get out of going into the service anyway. And what would this alternative service be? Serving soup somewhere? Not that there is anything wrong with serving soup to the needy but if you have two candidates and one served in military combat and the other served soup to fill their constitutional requirement...do they both get the same credit? Aside from that, your amendment might put people in the military that don't want to be there and are only doing it to fill a requirement. I was in the service and the worst experiences I had in there were with those individuals that did not have their hearts set on being in.
Bill Clinton, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Calvin Coolidge, Warren Harding, Woodrow Wilson, William Taft, Grover Cleveland, Martin Van Buren, John Q. Adams and John Adams saw no military service of any kind.
The words separation of church and state don't appear within the structure. The phrases within the constitution aren't any regulation respecting an institution of religion, or prohibiting the free follow there of.
There is a long tradition of military servicemen of abstaining from political life. Many go their whole careers without voting because they did not want to be biased for or against their civilian commander. One current example is General David Petraeus:
General David Petraeus follows a long line of military generals who refuse to vote in order to keep their political affiliations under wraps. Though he is registered as a Republican, the General stopped voting when he earned his second star, noting that he did so “to avoid being pulled in one direction or another, to be in a sense used by one side or the other.”
Obviously, this idea can only be supported by people who don't respect the civilian control of the military. It even goes against military tradition, so people who think this is a good idea must really hate veterans.