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What year was the voting age lowered to 18?
The Twenty-sixth Amendment (Amendment XXVI) of the United States Constitution standardized the voting age to 18. It was adopted in response to student activism against the Vietnam War and to partially overrule the Supreme Court's decision in Oregon v. Mitchell. It was adopted on July 1, 1971 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-sixth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Which amendment states the voting age?
Four different constitutional amendments extended voting rights to various groups:Fifteenth Amendment: Prohibited discrimination by race (applied primarily to African-American males), ratified in 1870.Nineteenth Amendment: Granted women's suffrage (right to vote), ratified in 1920.Twenty-third Amendment: Allowed citizens residing in the District of Columbia the right to vote in presidential elections, ratified in 1961.Twenty-sixth Amendment: Reduced the minimum voting age from 21 to 18, allowing younger people the right to vote, ratified in 1971.
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.
Why did congress pass the suffrage amendment?
To give equal voting rights to women. Congress did not enact that amendment or any other. The STATES amended the Constitution to allow female voting.
The Constitutional amendment that prohibited denying voting rights to people based on race or color?
The 15th Amendment of the Constitution prohibits denying voting rights to people based on race or color
What According to the Twenty-sixth Amendment what is the legal voting age?
According to the 26th amendment, the legal voting age is eighteen.
Which amendment to the US Constitution lowered the voting age to 18?
44th
What did the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the Constitution change about voting?
It gave the vote to 18- to 20-year-old citizens.
What is the ninetieth amendment?
There is not yet a ninetieth amendment to the Constitution. There are twenty-seven amendments total. If you meant "nineteenth," the nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States (ratified August 18, 1920) guaranteed equal voting rights regardless of gender.
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 amendment changes voting age to 18?
Amendment 26
Which of the following amendments to the Constitution does not address or guarantee voting rights?
Which of the following amendments to the Constitution does NOT address or guarantee voting rights?That would be the 7th Amendment.7th Amendment
The Twenty-sixth Amendment lowered the voting age from?
21 to 18
What was the voting age in the 14th amendment?
Before passage of the U. S. Constitution's 26th Amendment, the minimum voting age had always been 21.
What is the purpose of the Twenty-sixth Amendment?
Lower the voting age from 21 to 18.
The 26th Amendment to the Constitution sets the minimum voting age at?
18
What did the ninteenth amendment to the constitution change about voting?
it gaved the vote to women
