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Should Voting Age Be Changed To Twenty-Five?
Do you really think teenagers who are fresh out of high school are capable of discerning who would best rule over the country we live in? I certainly do not. The only practice teenagers have in anything voting wise is student government. Then again we must remember the homeschooled students. Most eighteen year olds are incapable of making life changing decisions, therefore the legal voting age should be changed to twenty-five. The legal voting age should be changed to twenty-five but, what exactly is so significant about that age. Well, twenty-five is the age when the adolescent brain has fully developed. Several car rental businesses across the nation don’t allow rental to anyone below the age of twenty-five for this reason so why should

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