The draft was developed to get middle and lower class Americans to fight in the Vietnam war. It was ran as a government program that called up its citizens to serve their country. People could not decline to serve, other Wise they would have been jailed. The rich avoided the draft by having their doctors write them off as having a physical condition that will interfere with training and performance.
Enlightenment = Meditating under Bodhi Tree.
Life of suffering = Life with religious ascetics.
Life given to pleasures = Life as Hindu prince.
The main way in which the French and Indian war draw the colonist closer together but increased friction with Britain is that after the war, the British raised taxes on the colonies in order to pay for the war--taxes which the colonists rallied around as being unfair. This was a major point leading to the Revolution.
