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  2. Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    The Twenty-sixth Amendment (Amendment XXVI) to the United States Constitution establishes a nationally standardized minimum age of 18 for participation in state and federal elections. It was proposed by Congress on March 23, 1971, and three-fourths of the states ratified it by July 1, 1971.

  3. Twenty-sixth Amendment - Wikipedia

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    Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution — provides that the right to vote may not be denied on account of age, by any state or by the United States, to any American citizen age 18 or older. Twenty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland — permitted the state to ratify the Nice Treaty.

  4. List of amendments to the Constitution of the United States

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    Thirty-three amendments to the Constitution of the United States have been proposed by the United States Congress and sent to the states for ratification since the Constitution was put into operation on March 4, 1789. Twenty-seven of those, having been ratified by the requisite number of states, are part of the Constitution.

  5. What Would It Take to Amend the Constitution? - AOL

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    In response, House and Senate committees recommended the 26th Amendment on March 2, 1971. A unanimous 94–0 vote in the Senate approved it eight days later, and the House voted 401–19 in favor ...

  6. This is how many amendments there are in the U.S ... - AOL

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    How long does it take to ratify a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution? The First and 27th amendments had very different paths.

  7. Oregon v. Mitchell - Wikipedia

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    Oregon v. Mitchell, 400 U.S. 112 (1970), was a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the states of Oregon, Texas, Arizona, and Idaho challenged the constitutionality of Sections 201, 202, and 302 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) Amendments of 1970 passed by the 91st United States Congress, and where John Mitchell was the respondent in his role as United States Attorney General. [1]

  8. Vivek Ramaswamy shares his family's citizenship story - AOL

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    The proposal that young voters should take a civics test first, for example, runs right into the 26th Amendment of the Constitution: “The right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 years ...

  9. Voting rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Several constitutional amendments (the Fifteenth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-sixth specifically) require that voting rights of U.S. citizens cannot be abridged on account of race, color, previous condition of servitude, sex, or age (18 and older); the constitution as originally written did not establish any such rights during 1787–1870, except ...