32 CFR § 1636.3 - Basis for classification in Class 1-A-0.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t32/s1636.3"
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title: "32 CFR § 1636.3 - Basis for classification in Class 1-A-0."
title_number: 32
title_name: "National Defense"
section_number: "1636.3"
section_name: "Basis for classification in Class 1-A-0."
chapter_name: "SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM"
part_number: "1636"
part_name: "CLASSIFICATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "Military Selective Service Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 451 E.O. 11623."
regulatory_source: "47 FR 4655, Feb. 1, 1982, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "1636"
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# 1636.3 Basis for classification in Class 1-A-0.
(a) A registrant must be conscientiously opposed to participation in combatant training and service in the Armed Forces.
(b) A registrant's objection may be founded on religious training and belief; it may be based on strictly religious beliefs, or on personal beliefs that are purely ethical or moral in source or content and occupy in the life of a registrant a place parallel to that filled by belief in a Supreme Being for those holding more traditionally religious views.
(c) A registrant's objection must be sincere.
[47 FR 4655, Feb. 1, 1982, as amended at 52 FR 24457, July 1, 1987]