Draft Card Burning in the United States
Draft Card Burning
United States Constitution
According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled 574 DRAFT CARD BURNINGThe burning of Selective Service registration certificates or “draft cards” was a brief and dramatic episode that punctuated the early opposition to the vietnam war. Many draft registrants, often before television cameras, publicly burned their cards to demonstrate their refusal
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