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[5] [6] [7] Such conscription would apply to able-bodied men between the ages of 17 and 45 who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, U.S. citizens, as well as women in certain health care occupations. Conscription of 17-year-olds is optional and requires parental consent. [8]
In 2006, a Des Moines Register poll found 66% of Iowa adults favored reinstating the death penalty, while 29% opposed it. [8] While the death penalty is abolished at a state level in Iowa, the death penalty applies throughout the United States, including Iowa, under federal law.
Conscription into a full-time military service had only been instituted twice by the government of Canada, during both world wars. Conscription into the Canadian Expeditionary Force was practiced in the last year of the First World War in 1918. During the Second World War, conscription for home defence was introduced in 1940 and for overseas ...
Bills that passed Postpartum Medicaid coverage. Low-income mothers would be eligible for a full year of Medicaid coverage after giving birth under a bill passed by Iowa lawmakers, up from 60 days ...
Last Friday the Republican-controlled House passed a new version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) allowing the US government to automatically pull records from other federal ...
Vistarband effectively abolished (but not de jure). 1895: Taiwan: Taiwan is annexed by Japan, where slavery has been abolished. 1895: Egypt: Slavery abolished. [158] Italian Somaliland: First slaves freed [159] 1896: Madagascar: Slavery abolished. 1897: Zanzibar: Slavery abolished [160] except in the case of concubines (abolished in 1909 [161 ...
The Selective Service System was first founded in 1917 to feed bodies into America's World War I efforts. It was disbanded in 1920, fired back up in 1940, re-formatted in 1948, and then terminated ...
The Confederate Conscription Acts, 1862 to 1864, were a series of measures taken by the Confederate government to procure the manpower needed to fight the American Civil War. The First Conscription Act, passed April 16, 1862, made any white male between 18 and 35 years old liable to three years of military service.