 As of May 2003, the Defense Department has said the most likely form of draft is a special skills draft, probably of health care workers.In 1918, the Supreme Court ruled that the World War I draft did not violate the United States Constitution in the "Selective Draft Law Cases".The Court summarized the history of conscription in England and in colonial America, a history that it read as establishing that the Framers envisioned compulsory military service as a governmental power.