Being America 1st means serving yore country when called upon.
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“The constitutions adopted during the Revolutionary War by at least nine of the States sanctioned compulsory military service. Towards the end of the War of 1812, conscription of men for the army was proposed by James Monroe, then Secretary of War, but opposition developed and peace came before the bill could be enacted. In 1863, a compulsory draft law was adopted and put into operation without being challenged in the federal courts. Not so the Selective Service Act of 1917. This measure was attacked on the grounds that it tended to deprive the States of the right to a well-regulated militia, that the only power of Congress to exact compulsory service was the power to provide for calling forth the militia for the three purposes specified in the Constitution, which did not comprehend service abroad, and finally that the compulsory draft imposed involuntary servitude in violation of the Thirteenth Amendment. The Supreme Court rejected all of these contentions. It held that the powers of the States with respect to the militia were exercised in subordination to the paramount power of the National Government to raise and support armies, and that the power of Congress to mobilize an army was distinct from its authority to provide for calling the militia and was not qualified or in any wise limited thereby.“
Time Limit on Appropriations for the Army | Constitution Annotated | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
An annotation about Article I, Section 8, Clause 12 of the Constitution of the United States.
“The constitutions adopted during the Revolutionary War by at least nine of the States sanctioned compulsory military service. Towards the end of the War of 1812, conscription of men for the army was proposed by James Monroe, then Secretary of War, but opposition developed and peace came before the bill could be enacted. In 1863, a compulsory draft law was adopted and put into operation without being challenged in the federal courts. Not so the Selective Service Act of 1917. This measure was attacked on the grounds that it tended to deprive the States of the right to a well-regulated militia, that the only power of Congress to exact compulsory service was the power to provide for calling forth the militia for the three purposes specified in the Constitution, which did not comprehend service abroad, and finally that the compulsory draft imposed involuntary servitude in violation of the Thirteenth Amendment. The Supreme Court rejected all of these contentions. It held that the powers of the States with respect to the militia were exercised in subordination to the paramount power of the National Government to raise and support armies, and that the power of Congress to mobilize an army was distinct from its authority to provide for calling the militia and was not qualified or in any wise limited thereby.“
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