We couldn’t have fought WWII without a draft, which started before we had entered the war.
What does WWII have to do with peacetime enslavement and the fact that the selective enslavement act was foisted upon the people without a declaration of war shows that voter apathy is nothing new.
I don’t get your point, why doesn’t the peacetime selective service act of 1940 count?
In your view do we declare war on nations that we are not at war with, to give us the couple of years lead time needed to build up our military, or do you think the war breaks out and within days we have a million more new troops created out of thin air?