the draft law
The draft law otherwise known as the conscription of soldiers to serve their country, is one of the most controversial issues not only in the United States but in the entire world.Because of the history behind its past, debate has led up to present day about whether or not the Draft law should be used. The draft law goes back at least as far as biblical times. It's read in the Bible that the Lord had commanded Moses to gather all men over twenty years old that were able to go fight in the war in Israel. Ancient Greece also had imposed a draft upon its citizens. This idea was then passed onto Rome. In Europe in the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries the draft law was also brought into use because large armies of professional soldiers were needed to fight the wars. In France, after the French Revolution, all citizens were considered "soldiers of the state". Napoleon, then the leader of France, used the draft to create huge armies for conquest. In colonial America during the American Revolution, many states introduced the draft law, and punished anyone who failed to comply with it. The American Revolution was fought by volunteers and drafted men in the form of local armies called militias. Then after the war, congress passed a m
My opinion or whether or not the drafting of men should be used today is that I think it should be used only when absolutely necessary. I believe this because if the draft law is used, men with families or no desire to fight may be selected and because of personal problems they may have, bigger problems than our lack of people to fight could surface. Protest in the United States against the draft between 1950 and 1970 was very little if any at all during the Korean war from 1950 to 1953. Because of the those two decades, the draft law had been drawn up in such a way to allow for a variety of conditions under which men were excused from serving. For example, many young men escaped serving because they chose to go to college. In the early 1970's the resistance to the draft law reemerged with strong negative feelings toward the Vietnam War. Much protest began and many young men left the country in order to avoid being drafted. The draft was then abolished in 1973 and protest ended. ilitia law for all free men aged from eighteen to forty-five to have military training. Since the law provided no arms or officers and required only four days of training a year, it had little or no effect. The United States didn't have a draft law much after the American Revolution. But year
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