26th Amendment
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Because of this Amendment, it allows 18 year old to vote. Because at the time before the amendment, 21 was the age you could vote. The Government know that if you could join the military and would risk your life to defend this Great Nation at the age of 18, then surely you should be able to vote at 18
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Because of this Amendment, it allows 18 year old to vote. Because at the time before the amendment, 21 was the age you could vote. The Government know that if you could join the military and would risk your life to defend this Great Nation at the age of 18, then surely you should be able to vote at 18
Real-Life Example.1. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his 1954 State of the Union address, became the first president to publicly state his support for prohibiting age-based denials of suffrage for those 18 and older.[2]
2. On June 22, 1970, President Richard Nixon signed an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that required the voting age to be 18 in all federal, state, and local elections.[3] In his statement on signing the extension, Nixon said: Despite my misgivings about the constitutionality of this one provision, I have signed the bill. I have directed the Attorney General to cooperate fully in expediting a swift court test of the constitutionality of the 18-year-old provision… Click here for the full article |