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This Day in Legal History: The First Peacetime Draft
On September 16, 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Selective Training and Service Act, establishing the first peacetime military draft in American history. With France fallen and Britain under siege, the country was bracing for a war it had not yet entered, and the Act required men in a broad age range to register for potential conscription. Within a month, the first registration was underway; within two, the first draftees were entering service.
The law sits at the heart of one of constitutional law’s most fundamental…
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