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Selective Service ActThe Selective Service Act established the first peacetime draft in United States history. The Act passed the United States Congress on May 18, 1917 and gave the President the power to draft soldiers.The draft began in November 1940, a year before the United States formally entered World War II. Conscription was not considered involuntary servitude under the Thirteenth Amendment, but rather part of Congress's right to raise and support armies. 
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