Pt. I. History

1. Posse comitatus / David Dawson

2. Plain truth / Benjamin Franklin

3. Conscription / Mark Sullivan

4. Why don't we learn from history? / B.H. Liddell Hart

5. The origins of American military policy / Louis Morton

6. The draft in the light of history / William H. McNeill

7. Raising armies before the Civil War / William G. Carleton

8. Women and the draft / M.C. Devilbiss

8. The peacetime draft : voluntarism to coercion / Richard Gillam

10. The volunteer army / Donald Smith

Pt. II. Philosophy

11. Civil rights and conscription / D.H. Monro

12. Political alienation and military service / Michael Walzer

13. The wreckage of the consensus / Ayn Rand

14. Military service and moral obligation / Hugo Adam Bedau

Pt. III. Constitutionality

15. Thoughts on the Conscription Law of the United States / Roger B. Taney

16. Selective Draft Law cases : a Supreme Court decision / Edward White

17. Conscription and the constitution : the original understanding / Leon Friedman

Pt. IV. Economics

18. Of the expence [sic] of defence [sic]/ Adam Smith

19. The economic cost of the draft / Walter Y. Oi

20. The economics of the military draft / Ryan C. Amacher ... [et al.]

Pt. V. Universal national service

21. The spirit of national service / Elihu Root

22. A moral equivalent for universal military service / Randolph Bourne

23. The logic of national service / Morris Janowitz

24. A national service system as a solution to a variety of national problems / Margaret Mead

25. The courage to compel / Terrence Cullinan

Pt. VI. Foreign conscription

26. Compulsory military service in England / H.B. Simpson

27. The social and political aspects of conscription : Europe's experience / Herman Beukema

28. Selection for military service in the Soviet Union / Raymond Garthoff

Pt. VII. Conscription : pro

29. Recommendations for a federal draft / James Monroe

30. Comments on compulsory military service : annual report of the War Department, 1916 / Hugh Scott

31. The basic purpose and objective of the U.S. Selective Service system / Lewis B. Hershey

32. Inequities in the draft / Edward M. Kennedy

33. Doubts about an all-volunteer army / Joseph A. Califano, Jr.

Reply / Roger T. Kelley

Rejoinder / Joseph A. Califano, Jr.

34. We must suspend many rights and privileges / James W. Wadsworth

35. Department of Defense report on study of the draft , 1966 / Thomas D. Morris

Pt. VIII. Conscription : con

36. Conscription and conscience / A.J. Muste

37. Why the draft should go / John M. Swomley, Jr.

38. The draft : unjust and unnecessary / Thomas B. Curtis

39. The all-volunteer armed force / Richard M. Nixon

40. The debate on an all-volunteer force / President's Commission on an All-Volunteer Force

41. Why not a volunteer army? / Milton Friedman

42. An unpublished speech / Daniel Webster.