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Background of selective service
Records the many instances of compulsory military service in the history of the United States, the 13 Original Colonies, and certain Old World Nations prior to the passage of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940.
All of the principal military recruitment Acts in United States federal history, covering the period from the passage of the first Resolution of the Continental Congress to the beginning of consideration of Selective Service legislation in 1940, are presented as appendices.
v. 1. A historical review of the principle of citizen compulsion in the raising of armies [prepared by Lt. Col. Robert E. Jackson, Jr., A.G.D. Final editing was done by Dr. Mapheus Smith.]
v. 2. Military obligation: the American tradition, a compilation of the enactments of compulsion from the earliest settlements of the original thirteen colonies in 1607 through the Articles of Confederation, 1789 [prepared and compiled by Lt. Col. Arthur Vollmer.] Volume II of Special Monograph No. 1 is limited entirely to statutes of the 13 Colonies which legalized compulsion during that strongly traditional period of American heritage. The two volumes of this monograph contain the most complete collection of American Colonial and Federal Acts for raising armed forces in existence.
All of the principal military recruitment Acts in United States federal history, covering the period from the passage of the first Resolution of the Continental Congress to the beginning of consideration of Selective Service legislation in 1940, are presented as appendices.
v. 1. A historical review of the principle of citizen compulsion in the raising of armies [prepared by Lt. Col. Robert E. Jackson, Jr., A.G.D. Final editing was done by Dr. Mapheus Smith.]
v. 2. Military obligation: the American tradition, a compilation of the enactments of compulsion from the earliest settlements of the original thirteen colonies in 1607 through the Articles of Confederation, 1789 [prepared and compiled by Lt. Col. Arthur Vollmer.] Volume II of Special Monograph No. 1 is limited entirely to statutes of the 13 Colonies which legalized compulsion during that strongly traditional period of American heritage. The two volumes of this monograph contain the most complete collection of American Colonial and Federal Acts for raising armed forces in existence.
4 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1947
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