Selective Service Act

Examples of Selective Service Act in the following topics:

• The Call to Arms

  • The Selective Service Act, or Selective Draft Act, enacted May 18, 1917, authorized the federal government to raise a national army through conscription for American entry into World War I.
  • The act was upheld by the U.S.
  • Supreme Court in the Selective Draft Law Cases in 1918, and then canceled with the end of fighting in November 1918.
  • During the American Civil War, the Draft Act of 1863 was the first law making service in the federal military compulsory for men between the ages of 2o and 45.
  • Under the Selective Service Act of 1917, all males aged 21 to 30 were required to register for military service.

• Mobilizing a Nation

  • The Selective Service Act of 1917 established a "liability for military service of all male citizens" and authorized a selective draft of men between 21 and 31 years of age.
  • The act prohibited all forms of bounties, substitutions, or purchase of exemptions, all of which had been prevalent during the Civil War.
  • The WLA also established the Women in Industry Service that eventually grew into a permanent Women’s Bureau in the Department of Labor, a Training and Dilution Service to help simplify skilled jobs, a Division of Negro Economics, Farm Service Division, Working Conditions Service, and Housing and Transportation Bureau that helped accommodate the living conditions of war workers.
  • The Department of Labor’s new Employment Service attracted workers from the South and Midwest to war industries in the East and was used by federal production offices to hire fresh employees.
  • This change reached throughout the civil service, including the expansive Postal Service, where African-American employees were downgraded and transferred out of jobs that interacted with the public.

• Civil Service Reform

  • Civil service reform in the United States was a major national issue in the late 1800s and a major state issue in the early 1900s.
  • The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act (ch. 27, 22 Stat. 403) of the United States is a federal law established in 1883 that stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit.
  • The act provided for the selection of government employees based on competitive exams, rather than on ties to politicians or political affiliation.
  • The Pendleton Act served as a response to the massive public support of civil service reform that grew following President Garfield's assassination.
  • President Hayes also dealt with corruption in the postal service.

• Garfield and Arthur

  • The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act (ch. 27, 22 Stat. 403) of the United States is a federal law established in 1883 that stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit.
  • The act provided selection of government employees based on competitive exams, rather than ties to politicians or political affiliation.
  • To enforce the merit system and the judicial system, the law also created the United States Civil Service Commission.
  • The Pendleton Act served as a response to the massive public support of civil service reform that grew following President Garfield's assassination.
  • Assess the significance of civil service reform under the Garfield and Arthur administrations

• Compassionate Conservatism

  • As former Bush chief speechwriter Michael Gerson put it, "Compassionate conservatism is the theory that the government should encourage the effective provision of social services without providing the service itself."
  • The Act is a United States Act of Congress first proposed by the administration of George W.
  • The Act requires states to develop assessments in basic skills, which they then must give to all students at select grade levels in order to receive federal school funding.
  • Missing AYP for a third year forces the school to offer free tutoring and other supplemental education services to struggling students.
  • The act requires states to provide "highly qualified" teachers to all students.

• No Child Left Behind

  • The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) is a United States Act of Congress first proposed by the administration of George W.
  • The Act requires states to develop assessments in basic skills.
  • States must give these assessments to all students at select grade levels in order to receive federal school funding.
  • Missing AYP for a third year forces the school to offer free tutoring and other supplemental education services to struggling students.
  • Assess the impact of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

• Corruption and Reform: Hayes to Harrison

  • The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act in ended the spoils system at the federal level in 1883.
  • The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act in ended the spoils system at the federal level in 1883 and created a bipartisan Civil Service Commission to evaluate job candidates on a nonpartisan merit basis.
  • The 1978 Ethics in Government Act codified standards of government ethics for the executive branch.
  • In 1989, the act was expanded in its applicability to the legislative and judicial branches.
  • Before the Civil Service Reform Act (Pendleton Act) was passed in 1883, civil service appointments were given based on a patronage system; that is, those who were loyal to an individual or party were rewarded with government jobs.

• The Stimulus Package and the Occupy Movement

  • The act includes increased federal spending for health care, infrastructure, and education.
  • Through the act, the Obama administration pumped almost $800 billion into the economy to stimulate economic growth and job creation.
  • On August 2, 2011, after a lengthy congressional debate over whether to raise the nation's debt limit, Obama signed the bipartisan Budget Control Act of 2011.
  • The legislation enforces limits on discretionary spending until 2021, establishes a procedure to increase the debt limit, creates a Congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to propose further deficit reduction with a stated goal of achieving at least $1.5 trillion in budgetary savings over 10 years, and establishes automatic procedures for reducing spending by as much as $1.2 trillion if legislation originating with the new joint select committee does not achieve such savings.
  • The main issues raised by OWS were social and economic inequality, greed, corruption, and the perceived undue influence of corporations on government—particularly from the financial services sector.

• The Coercive Acts

  • Many colonists, however, viewed the acts as an arbitrary violation of their rights.
  • The first of the acts passed in response to the Boston Tea Party was the Boston Port Act.
  • The Massachusetts Government Act provoked even more outrage than the Port Act because it unilaterally altered the government of Massachusetts to bring it under control of the British government.
  • Although many colonists found the Quartering Act objectionable, it generated the least amount of protest of the Coercive Acts.
  • The artist of this image targets select members of Parliament as the perpetrators of a devilish scheme to overturn the constitution; this is why Mother Britannia weeps.

• The G.I. Bill of Rights

  • The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, known informally as the G.I.
  • The veterans' organizations mobilized support in Congress that rejected FDR's approach and provided benefits only to veterans of military service, including men and women.
  • The decision to end direct tuition payments to schools came after a 1950 House select committee uncovered incidents of overcharging of tuition rates by some institutions under the original G.I.
  • The Servicemen's Readjustment Act, commonly referred to as the G.I.
  • Bill, has helped service members pay for higher education and training programs since it was signed into law by President Franklin D.