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When was the age of eighteen established as the age to vote?
The 26th amendment of the United States lowered and established the voting age to eighteen years old.
What admendment lowered the voting age?
The 26th Amendment to the US Constitution lowered the voting age to 18 years of age and was adopted on July 1, 1971.
What was one important factor that helped the 26th amendment in 1971?
The Twenty-Sixth Amendment lowered the minimum voting age throughout the United States to eighteen years of age. Prior to this amendment, each state determined its own minimum voting age, usually anywhere from the age of 18 to 21.
What amendment is for voting rights?
The voting age should be lowered because people 12 and older are old eneough to understand and what she does to help our country so we should have the right to vote.... NO STEALS OR iWill ARREST YOU
What did the 26th amendment accomplish?
The 26th Amendment establishes legal voting age in the United States. This amendment lowered the legal age to vote from 21 to 18 years old.
What did the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the Constitution change about voting?
It gave the vote to 18- to 20-year-old citizens.
When did 18 years old get the right to vote?
On July 1, 1971, when the 26th Amendment was ratified, it became impermissible for states to deny citizens eighteen years of age or older the right to vote. However, Georgia (in 1943) and Kentucky (in 1955) had previously lowered the minimum voting age to 18. States are not prohibited by the the 26th Amendment from lowering the voting age below 18.
Voting age before the 26th amendment?
i think the older peoples,becuase the 26th amendment says that citizens eighteen or older can vote, so maybe the citizen had to be like in their thirty 's . I am eleven years old :(
What amendment made it possible for eighteen years old to vote?
26 amendment
How many of the amendments have to do with voting?
the 14th amendment is voting based on race, the 26th amendment is the voting age is set to 18 years of age and the 19th amendment is women's suffrage. So, there are 3 amendments having to do with voting.
Who made the legal voting age in Canada?
The current federal voting age of eighteen was proposed to the 28th Parliament by the Government of The Right Honourable Pierre Trudeau P.C., C.H., C.C., Q.C., F.R.S.C. as prime minister. This amendment to s. 3 of the Canada Elections Act reduced the federal voting age (and the minimum age for candidacy) from twenty-one to eighteen years of age.
How old does a citizen have to be to vote for the president?
In the US, voters must be at least 18 years of age.You have to be 18 to vote in the general election in the uk.You must be 18 yrs. old to vote BUT thanks to the 26th Amendment it can be lowered to 16.
