Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer · ¶154

Congress also directed the President to build up our own defenses. Congress, recognizing the “grim fact... that the United States is now engaged in a struggle for survival” and that “it is imperative that we now take those necessary steps to make our strength equal to the peril of the hour,” granted authority to draft men into the armed forces. As a result, we now have over 3,500,000 men in our armed forces.

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U. S. Reports, volume 343, at 579 (Library of Congress) · transcription: Caselaw Access Project
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