Responsibility Lowering the drinking age to eighteen‚ mistake or a way to stop larger problems? I have found a website that‚ if you are for lowering the drinking‚ will clear a lot of these kinds of questions up. Choose Responsibility is a non-profit organization founded by President Emeritus John M. McCardell Jr. of Middlebury College‚ when McCardell was approached by the Robertson Foundation‚ a foundation interested in investigating the consequences of the 21 year-old drinking age. The Effects of the 21
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Rough draft United States believes that at the age of 18 you are considered an adult and are responsible for your own actions. At the age of 18 you can move out of your parents homes‚ I and every other girl in this room can go have an abortion‚ at the age of 18 you can sign up for the military and legally kill people and even put your own life at risk to protect our country‚ we can vote on who we want the next president of our country to be‚ you can go to a car dealer ship and purchase a car
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Debate Outline Team Members: Proposition: Should the drinking age be lowered to age 18? Position: Con Central Contentions or Claims Narration: The MLDA affects you; it affects me‚ all of us. Imagine being invited to a party and feeling uncomfortable because those around you are drunk and disorderly. Imagine going to college and not being able to focus on your school work because campus partying is even more common than before; the only difference is that now it’s legal. That’s
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Since 1987‚ it has been argued that the legal drinking age in the United States should be lowered to 18 so that young adults are allowed to drink in certain environments. This argument has many sides which can be argued. At 18‚ you are considered an adult. You can vote‚ charged with adult crimes‚ and even die for your country‚ but you cannot consume alcohol. To me that is discriminating against people in the age group of 18-20. As of now‚ adults over 21 years old are allowed to drink in places
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many countries with a minimum drinking age of 18” (18 Interesting Pro…). So why does the United States keep the age that you can have libations at 21? There has been a debate going on whether the drinking age should be 21 or 18. People have brought up statistics on the amount of wrecks and the amount of money going back into the economy. So the United States needs to change the drinking age‚ the drinking age should be 18 because a person is legally an adult at 18‚ there’s less risky behaviors‚
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minimum drinking age should be in the United States. Many people think that it should remain at 21 years old and others believe that it should be lowered to 18. While both have their own various reasons‚ this has been an important topic in our country for a long time. President Ronald Reagan signed and passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Law in 1984 which obligated states to raise their legal drinking age to 21 or suffer reductions in Federal highway funds. The highway funds and drinking age was
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In the United States at age 18‚ a person is legally allowed to buy tobacco‚ vote‚ get married‚ enlist in the military‚ and work in a bar‚ among other privileges. However‚ in most states‚ he cannot legally drink champagne at his own wedding or have a beer with his fellow comrades. 18 is the age of adulthood in the United States‚ and adults should have the right to make their own decisions about alcohol consumption. Turning 18 entails receiving the rights and responsibilities of adulthood‚ which involves
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Why the legal drinking age should be lowered to 18 Eighteen is the age that everyone becomes an adult in the United States. Eighteen is also the age when you should be able to decide if you choose to consume alcohol. Turning eighteen is a big responsibility at the age of eighteen you are allowed to choose to smoke cigarettes‚ vote‚ get married‚ serve on juries‚ sign contracts‚ and join the military which includes risking one’s life. So if you’re allowed to choose all of these then I feel like
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John Smith Negative: The legal drinking age in the U.S. should be lowered to 18. Introduction We believe that the drinking age across the United States should stay at 21 years of age. Several states are currently petitioning that the drinking age be lowered; however‚ we find this to be dangerous and extremely unnecessary. The first reason why we would like the drinking age to stay the same is because of history. From the end of Prohibition (when alcohol was not allowed to be manufactured
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why the drinking age is 21 and not 18 when can you buy tabaco legally at the age of 18 and you can’t buy alcohol at 18 too. I believe the drinking age should be 21 because teen’s brains are not done growing at the age of 18 and they could be damaged. My first reason is that when the law was moved to 21 the drunk driving dropped. My second reason is that when teens start drinking at such a young age they can have several health problems when they get older so by making it 21 it will lower the risk
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