The Military Draft should be abolished

Contention 1: The right to raise and maintain a military."The Congress shall have Power To ...raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years...." Article 1, Section 8 Clause 12"The Congress shall have Power To ...provide and maintain a Navy...." Article 1, Section 8, Clause 13"The Congress shall have Power To ...provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress...." Article 1, Section 8, Clause 16Here it shows in the US Constitution, that the US federal government has the right to raise and maintain a military. Back when we had the Articles of Confederation the federal government had to ask for the states to fund and donate troops, but the US could not do that since they had no money. In 1820, the Supreme Court, in the Houston V. Moore case, supported this when it rule that the federal power of the militia,"may be exercised to any extent that may be deemed necessary by Congress."In 1908, the US Congress passed the Militia Act (AKA the Dick Act), which established National Guards for the states. In Federalist Paper number 23 Alexander Hamilton stated, "These powers [of the federal government to provide for the common defense] ought to exist without limitation: because it is impossible to foresee or define the extent or variety of national exigencies, or the correspondent extent & variety of the means which may be necessary to satisfy them." You can see here that Hamilton saw the fact that the nation would face troubles at anytime. If we had a military like we did under the AOC (this is what I'll be referring to the Articles of Confederation from this point on), the US would face the utmost peril. Hamilton and John C. Calhoun both believed that maintaining an Army during peace time would do well in times of emergency. Such as 9/11 or even Hurricane Katrina. (http://www.heritage.org...) The Draft has even been ruled constitutional as well. (https://supreme.justia.com...)Contention 2: Draft ends Wars Quicker.For this Contention I will bring up two examples; the Civil War and the Vietnam War.During the Civil War, the US originally let the states handle the draft, which led to the 1862 Draft riots. The initial draft ended up giving the Union 3,000 troops in 3 months. I will give you a quotation from Major Bull showing the need for the draft in the initial months of the Civil War. "We can never conquer the South in this way, don't you begin to realize it? How now about the war being over in three months? But I'm sick of this subject. We've been here, begging for reinforcements from a population of twenty millions, and have received two brigades, the aggregate of which is probably three thousand men, not more."During the Civil War, the draft provided the Union Army a total of 168,649 men to the Union services to help the Northern forces. (http://en.wikipedia.org...) Now though the great and powerful United States lost in Vietnam, it is the draft that actual helped bring the war to an end. The draft helped encouraged anti-war protests all over the nation and help keep the nuclear option away from men like General Curtis LeMay who wanted a nuclear strike on Vietnam as McArthur wanted on China. The draft raised a total of 2 million for our forces. (http://spartacus-educational.com...) Contention 3: Draft helps mixes society. In speaking of the draft during Vietnam, Noel Koch a former speechwriter for president Nixon wrote "The draft shattered class distinctions. It mixed high school dropouts with college graduates, rich with middle class and poor." He went on to say "Class lines blurred and so did racial lines. The military did more to advance the cause of equality in the United States than any other law, institution or movement. Not for nothing did 'Bro' come into common usage in the Vietnam era." (http://www.washingtonpost.com...) We even can see that it brings the nation together emotionally as well. (http://abcnews.go.com...)