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Conscription, also known as the draft in American English, is the practice in which the compulsory enlistment in a national service, mainly a military service, is enforced by law. [1] Conscription dates back to antiquity and it continues in some countries to the present day under various names.
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In practice, though, no one has been prosecuted for failure to comply with draft registration since 1986, [97] in part because prosecutions of draft resisters in the 1980s proved counter-productive for the government, [98] and in part because of the difficulty of proving that noncompliance with the law was "knowing and willful".
[133] [134] Harris was an anti-draft organizer who went to jail for his beliefs (and was briefly married to folk singer Joan Baez), [130] Miller was the first Vietnam War refuser to publicly burn his draft card (and later became partner to spiritual teacher Starhawk), [131] Elmer refused to register for the draft and destroyed draft board files ...
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World War I draft card. Lower left corner to be removed by men of African ancestry in order to keep the military segregated. Following the U.S. declaration of war against Germany on April 6, the Selective Service Act of 1917 (40 Stat. 76) was passed by the 65th United States Congress on May 18, 1917, creating the Selective Service System. [10]