Sorry sport, that one was argued in December of 1917 at the height of the progressive era. One of the reasons the draft ended after Vietnam was the cases winding their way to the Supreme Court.
That was a very poor decision that is astonishingly poorly reasoned or supported. It used a Pennsylvania STATE case, decided during the Civil War as a legal basis. It referred to an 1758 Book written by a Prussian Lawyer and published in Switzerland as a basis for it’s opinion. So, it ignored blackletter law of the 13th Amendment in favor of the Penn Supreme court, a Prussian Lawyer’s textbook from the 1750s and then worst of all, the court even used a list of foreign countries that drafted THEIR citizens as a basis for “we should it too”. Because if Turkey, Siam, Russia and Germany do it, certainly it should be incorporated into US Law!
It was nothing but a sicko war fever case when civil rights were flagrantly being ignored and idiots were killing every Dachshund they could find and eating Liberty Cabbage instead of Sauerkraut.
That case is so laughably substandard that it would be immediately overturned if revisited today. Nobody serious thinks it would stand new scrutiny. And the Pentagram killed the draft to moot upcoming cases that would do just that.
But the war slaver swamp and Generals still want it.
But it is over. The days of national government slavery are gone forever. It’s an artifact of the past that is thankfully gone.
Exercise your power elsewhere lol.
I don’t disagree that the draft is dead. Very few people believe in such service in the US.
I was making the point that case law at that time upheld the draft. Like it or not.