it lowered the voting age to 18
The 26th Amendment, adopted in 1971, lowered the voting age to eighteen. Under Section 2, it is stated that Congress has the power to enforce this. Please support commonsense grammar.
The fifteenth amendment prohibits denying the right to vote based on race or color. The nineteenth amendment prohibits denying the right to vote based on sex and the twenty sixth amendment guarantees the right to vote to all citizens over eighteen years old.
The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the US Constitution standardized the voting age to 18. It was adopted in response to student activism against the Vietnam War and to partially overrule a Supreme Court's decision that states could set their own minimum voting age. It was adopted on July 1, 1971.
The 26th Amendment to the United States Constitution was added in 1971. It was the hope that young adults would have a say in who their elected officials would be, as well as to give them a voice on important issues that mattered most to them. However, the voting range of young adults between the ages of 18 to 25, has been hard to measure. It seems that number of eligible voters don't use the right that they have in making important decisions on how their government will function. Because of this, the nation is pretty much divided when it comes to voting. Although voters between the ages of 18 to 25 voted in high numbers in 1992, and in 2008, in the US Presidential and Congressional races, the numbers of these voters are not really as high as they should be. The United States is split right down the middle on many of social, economic, and foreign matters. Those who have the right to vote but do not choose to do so, have no rights to complain where something they may not like happens.
The 26th Amendment to the US Constitution lowered the voting age to 18 years of age and was adopted on July 1, 1971.
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In 1959, the legal voting age in Minnesota was 21. The voting age was not lowered to 18 until the passage of the 26th Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1971.
On July 7, 1971, the voting age became 18 when the 26th amendment to the US constitution was certified as having been ratified.
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It lowered it to 18 from 21.
It gave the vote to 18- to 20-year-old citizens.
The Twenty-sixth Amendment (Amendment XXVI) of the United States Constitution standardized the voting age to 18. It was adopted in response to student activism against the Vietnam War and to partially overrule the Supreme Court's decision in Oregon v. Mitchell. It was adopted on July 1, 1971 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-sixth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Expand the right to vote. The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote; the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age to 18.
21 to 18