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Originally Posted by unregistered
no, they should be required to support themselves in a third world dictatorship for a year
and they should not have a vote until having spent 3 yrs service in some fashion
men and women - no service, no vote
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It is interesting that you say this. Because the original idea was that citizens should have some stake in the government in order to participate visa vi property/land ownership.
In principle, I favor the compulsory service of some type. However, the pitfall is in generating two classes of citizen. How would you insure the non-voting class would be protected? We can see what ultimately happened to the Roman Republic.