Noun. 1. Selective Service System-an independent federal agency that administers compulsory military service. Selective Service, SSS. independent agency-an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments.oun. 1. Selective Service System-an independent federal agency that administers compulsory military service. Selective Service, SSS. independent agency-an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments.
Hannah Johnson, mother of a Northern Black soldier, writing to President Abraham Lincoln about the Emancipation Proclamation, July 31, 1863. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war.The proclamation declared that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states are, and henceforward shall be free..resident Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states are, and henceforward shall be free..
Contemporary Examples. 1  The Emancipation Proclamation, as Nancy Pelosi reminds us, was an executive action. 2  But the Emancipation Proclamation set his heart beating with thoughts of immortality. 3  But historians are already preemptively dousing our enthusiasm for the Emancipation Proclamation. the proclamation issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing the slaves in those territories still in rebellion against the Union.