The Draft Was Never Repealed. Here Is What Changes in December

Automatic Draft Registration (Dec. 2026) and the History of the American Draft
This December, Selective Service registration becomes automatic. The duty to sign up moves from the man to the government, and the agency that has to run it withdrew its implementing rules in July without ever publishing them.
When a majority decides the country needs soldiers and will not wait for volunteers, what exactly has it done, and who was supposed to say stop? On Saturday we defined Rousseau's general will as he defined it and ended on a gap in the design: nobody is clearly charged with saying when a law…