In 1971 the united states ratified the 26th amendment to the constitution granting to vote at the age of 18 20 years old.The 26th amendment was the fastest to be ratified in U.S history.i think it should be lowered to 13 because 13 year olds should have a say.At 13 your a teenager so you…
In 1970, the Voting Rights Act had set the minimum voting age at eighteen to federal and state elections but the “Supreme Court ruled that the Voting Rights Act applied only to federal elections, and that the power of Congress did not extend to other elections.”7 If this happened then the government would need to have two different registration books and election systems for federal and other type of elections. It would cost too much money.…
According to the NHTSA, the National Traffic Highway Safety Administration, in 2010 the drunk driving fatalities accounted for 32% of all traffic deaths. That means on average someone is killed in an alcohol-impaired driving crash about every 50 minutes in the U.S.…
.16 yr olds would mess up the country. If the voting age changed, people who wouldn’t be in power will probably will make it to power. The voting age of 18 should not be changed to 16.…
The Issue is lowering the drinking age and it affects people by some being responsible and some not. Lowering the drinking age , 18 is the age of adulthood in the U.S. and adults should have the right to make their own decisions.…
I feel that the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen years of age. You are legal to buy tobacco and cigarettes the age eighteen. You can vote at eighteen and you can serve our country as well. I feel like if you are going to be treated as adult then you should get the privileges as well. That is why I think the drinking age should be lowered.…
As you can see decreasing the legal drinking age to 18 years of age is only going to be a mistake, that will only waste money, lives, and valuable time.…
If the drinking age is lowered or not there will always be kids that will drink underage anyways. I think the drinking should be lowered to 18. A big number of teenagers will have already drank by the time they are 21 years old and even 18 years old. I think if the drinking age was lowered teenagers would actually be a bit more careful and drink more responsibly. This could also go the opposite way and have the age of underage drinking get lower and lower. No matter what the legal drinking age is there will always be those teens that will get their hands on alcohol either…
Lastly, lowering drinking age will save people lives. Lowering drinking age will prevent illegal issues. For example, college students, especially freshman, are going to party to experience new college life. There are some parties that have some alcohol beverage. Since United States is not allowing people to drink who is under 21 years old, students are drink alcohol illegally and make a mistake or in worst case, they lose their live by doing stupid things. The majority of teenagers or college freshman will continue to consume alcohol even though it’s illegal. To solve this problem, America needs to reduce drinking age. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimate that the increase in the minimum legal drinking age has…
Therefore, if the drinking age were to be lowered to 18 then it would stop the cause of diseases like alcoholism and alcohol poisoning. It would also lower the percentage of illegal doings if minors were to be caught. When we turn 18 in the United States of America, we are to be considered adults, so let us make all the choices for ourselves instead of hiding one from us until later on in life.…
Should voting in the U.s be mandatory? In this article, the author shows the opinions of two professors. Lisa Hills, from…
I believe that for the time period, it was not a mistake to give eighteen-year-olds the right to vote. However, I do not believe that the succeeding generations deserve that right. If it was possible to change the voting age back to 21 with a clause allowing younger military, students and political party members to vote that would be ideal in my opinion.…
In the United States today a person who reaches the age of 18 is legally given the right to vote. There are some Americans who believe that this is too young of an age for voters. These people argue that the voter age should be raised to 21. In doing so the response to this change will give young adults more time to mature and make reasonable decisions for who they want as leaders in the political world. Although, it might help a little with maturity there are still more questions about raising the voter age that have gone unanswered.…
Some people think that the voting age should be lowered from 18 to 16, I think it should not be lowered.…
At the beginning only the wealthy, ones who paid taxes could exercise their right to vote, this however has changed as country progressed. We can understand that with time it was unavoidable to allow women vote as there was always pressure in regards to equality, perhaps it was the same case with lower social classes as the decisions taken by government affected them as well, however it has taken until 1969 for the government to allow its citizens to vote at the age of eighteen. Since the past few years, there has been a debate arising whether the voting age should be lowered even more, to allow people aged 16 years old to take part in the voting.. There are some strong arguments against allowing under 18s to vote, some of which are points made on basis of traditional values, others try to point out the fact that 16 year olds are politically unaware and could be easily persuaded into making a wrong decision, or it being taken under influence (or forced in less common cases) of their guardian. To keep in mind is the fact that a brain of 16 year old individual is working in a slightly different way that the one of an adult, also inevitable is the fact that they have different priorities and needs when compared to adults, perhaps it may be that one clever political party would try to sway luck in their favour by pledging to lower the amount of days they need to attend school, extend summer holidays or ban demanding teachers from tutoring them. Those ideas sound ridiculous to the majority of us, adults who treat their life seriously, and try to plan their future up until certain extent, however to some of the younger generation it may sound…