The 26th Amendment was adopted on July 1, 1971 during Richard Nixon's administration, although presidential approval is not required for constitutional amendments.
Congress proposed the 26th Amendment for adoption on March 23, 1971. The Administrator of General Services declared to Congress on July 5, 1971 that it had been ratified by 40 state legislatures and was now valid.
The reason the 26th amendment was passed was because of the Vietnam War. It was reasoned that if a person could be drafted and sent to war at 18 they should also be able to vote.
It takes a three-fourths ratio from the states to pass an amendment. Before an amendment goes to the states, it has to pass both house of legislature.
Anyone know who helped pass the 1st amendment?
16th amendment
The fifteenth amendment was ratified on February 3, 1870.
The amendment that Congress passed in 1865 was the Thirteenth amendment and it banned slavery in the United States.
the Vietnam War.
Connecticut and Rhode Island both didn't pass the 18th amendment, which pertains to the prohibition of alcohol.
Congress passed the 11th amendment on March 4, 1794.
Congress pass the 14th Amendment providing citizens to all persons born in the United States.(Dred Scott Vs Sandford).
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