Justifications for excluding women from the Military selective service act (MSSA).
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Justifications for Excluding Women from the Military Selective Service Act (MSSA) One of the main defenses for allowing Selective Service registration to exclude females is for lack for a better explanation, because U.S. Congress drafted the statute to exclude women. Article I, section 8 of the Constitution commits exclusively to the Congress the powers to raise and support armies, provide and maintain a Navy. Moreover, Congress is granted to authority to make rules for Government and regulation of the land and naval forces. Pursuant to these powers it lies within the discretion of the Congress to determine the occasions for expansion of our Armed Forces, and the means best suited to such expansion should it prove necessary. Such power is almost absolute because for centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken the position that the constitutional power of Congress to raise and support armies and to make all laws necessary...

