< Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

SELECTIVE DRAFT LAW, a distinctive name given to the measures passed by the United States Congress in 1917, providing for the drafting of men of military age into the armed forces, for service in the World War. See United States, section, United States in the World War.

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