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Nor does he believe in military conscription in wartime ("[t]he libertarian believes that people will voluntarily defend a country worth defending").
The army had to crush revolts in Sicily and Naples against heavy taxes and conscription for Spain’s wars in northern Europe.
In 1917 Puerto Ricans won a mixed bag of benefits: they were given more say in their internal affairs, made citizens of the United States - and declared eligible for conscription in World War I.
Our masses are quite as raw and uncultivated as the French, and, so far from their having the idea of public duty and of discipline, superior to the individual's self- will, brought to their mind by a universal obligation of military service, such as that of the conscription,-so far from their having this, the very idea of a conscription is so at variance with our English notion of the prime right and blessedness of doing as one likes, that I remember the manager of the Clay Cross works in Derbyshire told me during the Crimean [58] war, when our want of soldiers was much felt and some people were talking of a conscription, that sooner than submit to a conscription the population of that district would flee to the mines, and lead a sort of Robin Hood life under ground.
The brutality of forced conscription ever stood before her eyes: she beheld the young men, often the sole supporter of a large family, brutally dragged to the barracks to lead the miserable life of a soldier.
First, that conscription has created in Europe a deep-seated hatred of militarism among all classes of society.
The conscription comes.
The Continental law of conscription admits of no distinction such as that which Nature confers upon an individual by the gift of genius, and to escape the danger which now threatened him, and which, by depriving him of his liberty for several years to come, appeared to be wholly insupportable, Schubert seized upon the only remedy which offered itself.
Impatient as he felt under the constraint put upon him he never complained, probably the dread of the conscription was constantly haunting him, for no fewer than three summonses to serve reached him at this time.
"I imagine, sir," said he, mumbling with his toothless mouth, "that we have been summoned here not to discuss whether it's best for the empire at the present moment to adopt conscription or to call out the militia.
We have been summoned to reply to the appeal with which our sovereign the Emperor has honored us.
But to judge what is best-conscription or the militia-we can leave to the supreme authority.
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" There were insurrections; one in the west, in the district of La Vendée, where the people rose against the conscription and against the dispossession of the orthodox clergy, and were led by noblemen and priests; one in the south, where Lyons and Marseilles had risen and the royalists of Toulon{346} had admitted an English and Spanish garrison.
With the doing away of direct military service, never yet to be re-established in England, though the threat of conscription is now made, disappeared the power of the king to control his people, and this prevented the establishment of a royal autocracy and the extinction of representative government which took place in every Continental State.
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