Selective Amendments

The US Congress only sends out Amendments for ratification by the States, when it suits them. Lowering the voting age was one of them. They do this when they actually want to add them and think they will be ratified.  They also send them to the states to be rejected, thus ending the debate.

 

The Twenty-sixth Amendment (Amendment XXVI) to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States who are at least eighteen years old.

The drive to lower the voting age from 21 to 18 grew across the country during the 1960s, driven in large part by the broader student activism movement protesting the Vietnam War. The impetus for drafting an amendment to lower the voting age arose following the Supreme Court's decision in Oregon v. Mitchell, 400 U.S. 112 (1970), which held that Congress may establish a voting age for federal elections, but not for local or state elections.

On March 23, 1971, a proposal to lower the voting age to 18 years was adopted by both houses of Congress and sent to the states for ratification. The amendment became part of the Constitution on July 1, 1971, three months and eight days after the amendment was submitted to the states for ratification, making this amendment the quickest to be ratified.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-sixth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

 

Find the entire list of Amendments to the US Constitution at:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amendments_to_the_United_States_Constitution

 

Comments

Concurrent with the passage of this Amendment, schools redoubled their efforts to “dumb down” the students. Liberals are the “puppet-masters”.

The clincher for getting this passed is that 18 year olds had been drafted to fight in Vietnam, but didn’t have the right to vote. But Nixon ended the draft in 1971.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader