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A common slogan of proponents of lowering the voting age was "old enough to fight, old enough to vote". [2] Determined to get around inaction on the issue, congressional allies included a provision for the 18-year-old vote in a 1970 bill that extended the Voting Rights Act. The Supreme Court subsequently held in the case of Oregon v.
Give Children the Vote: On Democratizing Democracy. 2022. ISBN 978-1-350-19630-8. Caplan, Sheri J. Old Enough: How 18-Year-Olds Won the Vote & Why it Matters. Heath Hen, 2020. ISBN 978-1-7354-9300-8. John B. Holbein and D. Sunshine Hillygus. 2020. Making Young Voters: Converting Civic Attitudes into Civic Action. Cambridge University Press.
As of the aforementioned date, 12 countries or territories have a minimum voting age of less than 18, with 3 countries or territories at 17-years-old, and 9 countries or territories at 16-years-old. [ 10 ] 16-years-old is the lowest minimum age globally for national elections, while the highest is 25-years-old which is only the case in the ...
The move to lower the voting age has been given a fresh push by the activism of teenagers across the country after the Parkland high school shooting. Washington, D.C., may let 16-year-olds vote ...
Luci Baines Johnson was a somewhat impatient 18-year-old on Aug. 6, 1965, when she happened to be on what she called “daddy duty,” meaning “I was supposed to accompany him to important ...
California is the latest target in a movement to grant 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in municipal elections. The option is on the ballot in this city.
The EMA that rights protected under the first amendment were extended to children. [34] 2013 Voting Age of 16 Takoma Park, Maryland became the first city in the United States to extend voting rights to residents after they turn 16 in city elections. [35] 2023 Loosening child labor restrictions
A Vermont town has acted on the notion that young voters offer hope for the future, giving 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote next week in local elections. Last year the Democratic-controlled ...