Underage Voting

Voting is important in our society and it is meant to help shape up our government. In America adults can get the right to vote at the age of eighteen. You earn a right to be heard and have right to have your opinion counted on what goes on in this country. I believe that our voting age should not be lower than eighteen, because many young voters can vote for foolish laws to get passed, they can make our government change for the worse. I believe that the voting age should remain at eighteen because adults have a better understanding in what are government needs. This is important because voting can change our society. I agree that the voting age should stay at eighteen because many eighteen year olds are smarter than the average sixteen year old. Sixteen year olds are likely not to care about politics. Most of the eighteen year olds have learned about government in their senior year of high school, so they should be better informed with our government. Sixteen year olds don’t even take a government class until their senior year so they would not understand the responsibility of voting. Eighteen year olds are more mature; if they can graduate from high school, have a job, and join the armed forces, they would be more concerned with voting to change the system for the better. Some of these teenagers cannot keep up with high school. so they would not up to date with voting. On the other hand eighteen year old adults can make smarter votes. They will take their time to read and understand what they should vote for. They are also not likely to copy their parent’s votes. If we leave the voting age at eighteen then we will have smart, mature, and independent votes. I don’t believe that underage teens should be able to vote. Usually these underage teens don’t realize how important the future of the government can be. If we allow them to vote they can change our government and then have an ignorant leader’s in power. Most of these underage teen that are sixteen still have not matured enough. If they depend on their parents then it is easy for the underage teen to copy their parents vote. This means that they might not be ready to vote if they are going to copy. These underage teens can also vote for silly ideas for the sake of rebellion. A lot of these teen don’t pay taxes so they don’t have anything to lose. They would not consider all the issues and make uninformed decisions. They can cause our country to suffer great consequences by allow these underage teenagers to vote.
In the United States constitution the fourteenth amendments only allowed people the age of 21 to vote. Soon later come the twenty sixth amendment, this amendment was passed during the Vietnam War, a time of nationwide anti-war protests and social unrest. The United States was shocked over the war .There were endless protests over the draft. All males over the age of 18 were eligible for the draft. But the minimum voting age was 21. It was widely considered unfair that these 18-year-olds were eligible for military service, and therefore old enough to fight and die for their country, but didn’t have the right to vote. The fourteenth amendment had guaranteed the right to vote, to 21 year old men. After much political debate and a Supreme Court case, Congress finally lowered the national voting age to 18. In the 26th Amendment, the minimum age was set at 18 for both state and national elections.
I agree that are government should keep voting at the age of eighteen. If we allow sixteen year old wait two more years they can give them enough time to fully mature making wise decisions on how they want their tax money to be used. Once they have a job they can be more responsible for their actions. If we allow these underage teen to wait until there eighteen There going to have a better understanding in governments from the help of previous high school courses that would allow them to make more smarter vote that can benefit our country. They can be more independent with their votes. They wouldn’t copy their parents they can believe what they believe is going to help our nation. Once there 18 they can be more mature of the issues at hand. They would not vote for laws for the sake of rebellion. Their minds will take this as a more important resource. they are going to vote because they know that bad Politian’s are sent to Washington by the people who don’t vote. Voting is a very serious recourse that we have to take care of.