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How did the Twenty-Sixth Amendment address concerns about age discrimination?
it lowered the voting age to 18
What amendment changed the voting age from twenty one to eighteen?
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.
Which amendments to the US Constitution guarantee or address voting rights?
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.
When and why was amendment 26 passed?
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.
Lowest voting age in national elections?
During the Vietnam War, many Vietnam veterans criticized the U.S. government for forcing them to go to war at the age of eighteen but not allowing them to vote until age 21. As a result, the U.S. Constitution was amended in 1971, lowering the minimum voting age to 18.
