Ch. 10: Selective Service Administration

Essential Question # 10 – Why are males ages 18 to 26 expected to register with Selective Service?

(1) review the constitutional history of military service in American history, including the military and political importance of a militia in colonial times, the origins and development of the Second Amendment, the use of conscription and a military draft, the wartime occurrences of civil disobedience and conscientious objection

(2) understand the democratic reasons for requiring all males to register, the differences between mandatory registration and a mandatory draft, the differences between voluntary service and mandatory service

(3) take and defend positions on the constitutionality of a recent or historical public policy that posed a conflict between security and liberty.