Our government uses registration to keep a list of men's names from which to draw in the event of a national emergency requiring an immediate increase in our armed forces.
Selective Service ensures that a future draft will be fair and equitable by registering all young men. However, the Selective Service Act was required because, by the time the United States of America declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917, a sufficient number of American men had either not enlisted or volunteered to build, train, and immediately deploy an army.
In order to accomplish this, Congress enacted the Selective Service Act, which Wilson signed into law on May 18, 1917. The law required every American man between the ages of 21 and 30 to sign up for military service. Within a short period of time, approximately 10 million men across the nation signed up for the military draft.
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