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A draft or, conscription, is a system of copulsory enrollment of men
the earliest form of drafting recorded was done by the ancient Greeks
around the 1st century B.C. In Greece men were taken from a very young
age and trained for several years in the citezen malitia. However, the draft has
been greatly modified scince then. In the United States all able-bodied
men,usually between the ages of 16 and 60, were compelled to register on the
lists of those available for service.
would be elidgible for being drafted into the U.S. armed forces. Currently
drafted contradicts their freedom.