Remove the draft
Conscription is the most extreme claim a government can make on a citizen. It takes the years, and possibly the life, of a person who did not consent — for a decision made by people who will not bear it.
The position is simple: no draft, and no reinstatement of one against citizen will.
Registration is not a neutral formality
A standing registration system is the draft with the last step deferred. Keeping the machinery warm means the decision to use it is a single administrative act rather than a public argument — and an arrangement that can be switched on without a debate will eventually be switched on without one.
Any honest version of this position has to say what happens to the registry, not only to the draft.
"Kept removed" is the harder half
A prohibition a future Congress can quietly reverse is not a protection. Most of the work here is therefore about durability, which is a drafting problem:
- Language with an actual lock on it, not a policy statement.
- No delegation that lets the prohibition be undone by administrative action.
- A requirement that any reinstatement be voted on in the open, by name, in advance — so the record exists and the citizens affected can see who did it.
That is bill text, not a slogan. It is written in Fixing the Law and published as actual legislative language in Fix Bills.
Where a citizen sees where their own member stands
On the record, one member at a time — what they voted for and what it cost. The voting record feeds the Monkey and Llama awards and nothing else, and the seat-level view is The seat view.
Also in this area
- The forever war pattern — why these outlive elections.
- Who pays and who profits — the accounting.