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Conscription in Israel
Conscription in Israel (Hebrew: גיוס) is compulsory IDF enlistment under the 1949 Defense Service Law for citizens and permanent residents at age 18, with exemptions for Arab citizens and Haredi yeshiva students, plus national-civic service.
Conscription in Korea under Japanese rule
Conscription in Korea under Japanese rule extended Japan's military draft to Korean colonial subjects, decided in 1942 and first enforced from September 1944 through the 1945 defeat.
Conscription in Russia
Conscription in Russia: compulsory military draft of men aged 18-30 under Federal Law 53-FZ, one-year service, alternative civilian service, and year-round draft procedures since 1 January 2026.
Conscription in South Korea
Conscription in South Korea (병역제도): mandatory draft of all able-bodied men for 18-21 months, run by the Military Manpower Administration against the North Korean threat; now facing demographic decline and reform toward selective, tech-focused service.
Conscription in the United Kingdom
Conscription in the United Kingdom, also called National Service, was compulsory military enlistment used 1916-1920 and 1939-1960, ending with the last discharge in May 1963; the armed forces are now entirely volunteer.
Conscription in the United States
Conscription in the United States (the draft): compulsory military service used in the Civil War, both World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam, ending July 1973; the Selective Service System still registers men 18-25, moving to automatic registration in December 2026.
Conscription in Ukraine
Conscription in Ukraine: compulsory military service and wartime mobilization of men aged 25–60 (draft age lowered from 27 to 25 in April 2024), run by TRSSC recruitment centers, with VLK medical fitness rules, Reserve+ digital registration, and documented human rights complaints.
Conscription Ordinance
The Conscription Ordinance (Chōheirei) was the Japanese law of January 1873 establishing universal military service, ending the samurai monopoly on arms and creating a Western-style conscript army that lasted until 1945.
Conseil supérieur de Saint-Domingue
The Conseil supérieur de Saint-Domingue was the superior council of the French colony of Saint-Domingue, a royal court that registered laws and issued acts into 1790.
Consensual homicide
Consensual homicide is the killing of one person with that person's consent, covering assisted suicide and killing at request, and counts as murder in most common law countries.
Consensus conference
A consensus conference is a participatory method in which a panel of lay citizens questions experts over several days and issues a collective judgment on a contested technological or policy question.
Consensus decision-making
Consensus decision-making is a cooperative group process seeking agreement all members can support, distinct from majority rule and unanimity; rooted in Quaker and Native American practice, adapted by activists and the IETF's rough consensus.
Consent
Consent (sexual consent, samtycke) is voluntary agreement to sexual activity requiring freedom and capacity. Key facts: UK s.74 definition, Canada s.273.1, Sweden's 2018 consent-based rape law, affirmative versus no-means-no models.
Consent by exchange of instruments constituting a treaty
Consent by exchange of instruments constituting a treaty is a mode under Article 13 of the 1969 Vienna Convention whereby states become bound by exchanging notes or letters.
Consent of the governed
Consent of the governed is the principle that a government's authority comes from the agreement of the people it rules, famously stated in the Declaration of Independence of 1776.
Consent, compromis and jurisdiction in international arbitration
Consent, compromis, and jurisdiction in international arbitration is the doctrine that tribunals may hear only disputes the parties have consented to, by compromis or treaty clause.
Consent, eligibility and adoption procedure in Canadian adoption law
Consent, eligibility, and adoption procedure in Canadian adoption law are governed by provincial statutes, with children's consent required from age 12 in most provinces and the child's best interests paramount.
Consequences of termination and invalidity of treaties
The consequences of termination and invalidity of treaties are rules in Articles 69 to 72 of the 1969 Vienna Convention governing a treaty's legal force.
Consequences of the attack on Pearl Harbor
Consequences of the Pearl Harbor attack: US entry into World War II on December 8, 1941, Japan's 1942 conquests, Executive Order 9066 incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans, and full US wartime mobilization.
Consequentialism
Consequentialism, also called consequentialist ethics, is the normative ethical view that an act's rightness depends only on its consequences; its paradigm is utilitarianism from Bentham, Mill, and Sidgwick, opposed to deontology and virtue ethics.
Conservapedia
Conservapedia: conservative, family-friendly wiki encyclopedia launched November 21, 2006 by Andrew Schlafly (son of Phyllis Schlafly) as an anti-liberal-bias alternative to Wikipedia; Young Earth creationist, Christian fundamentalist viewpoint per Media Bias/Fact Check.
Conservation (psychology)
Conservation (Piagetian conservation) is the developmental-psychology understanding that quantity stays constant when appearance changes. Children master it around age 7, in the concrete operational stage; simplified and cross-cultural studies revised Piaget's timing.
Conservation and propagation zone
Conservation and propagation zone, a garden in Lekeitio, Biscay, Basque Country, Spain, designated for plant conservation and propagation; documented mainly through mapping records rather than institutional publications.
Conservatism
Conservatism: a political philosophy skeptical of abstract reason and revolution, favoring tradition and gradual reform; founded with Burke's 1790 Reflections, positioned on the right since 1789 France.
Conservatism and religion across nations
Conservatism and religion across nations is a comparative article on how Catholic, evangelical, and Hindu traditions convert religious belief into conservative politics in different countries.
Conservatism in Africa
Conservatism in Africa is a set of political traditions rooted in inherited custom, customary institutions, and religion, which explicit center-right parties have rarely converted into durable platforms.
Conservatism in Asia
Conservatism in Asia covers late Qing culturalist nationalism in China, the Liberal Democratic Party's dominance in Japan since 1955, and Confucian political legacies across six Confucian societies.
Conservatism in Canada
Conservatism in Canada: the Canadian right from Tory and Progressive Conservative traditions to the 2003-formed Conservative Party of Canada, blending neoliberalism, social traditionalism, and populism, shaped by western regionalism and distinct from American conservatism.
Conservatism in China (中国保守主义)
Conservatism in China (中国保守主义): intellectual currents defending Chinese tradition within modernization, from late Qing culturalist nationalism and the National Essence school to New Confucianism, the Guomindang conservative revolution, and 1990s neoconservatism.
Conservatism in Italy
Conservatism in Italy is the conservative political tradition that developed after unification, long lacking a conservative party and shaped by intransigent Catholicism and the fascist taint.