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__NOTOC__1 Section 1.
The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
2 Section 2.
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
This amendment grants suffrage to those eighteen years of age and older.
The amendment was first introduced to Congress by West Virginia representative Jennings Randolph in 1941. Randolph argued that people who were old enough to fight and die for the country during wars should also have the right to vote. Randolph left the House in 1947, but became a senator in 1959 and began to introduce the amendment at every session.
Suffrage to those eighteen or older was endorsed by Dwight Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson. A law was passed in the 1960s which was similar to the amendment, but the government of OregonOregon is a state located in the western United States bordering the Pacific Ocean, California, Washington, Idaho, and Nevada. Its northern border lies along the Columbia River and the east along the Snake River. Two north-south mountain ranges the Coasta challenged it in court, and the Supreme Court overturned the parts of the law which required states to register 18-year-olds for state elections. Several states had already granted citizens from the ages of 18 to 21 the right to vote, but many citizens wanted all states to do so.
Congress and the state legislatureA legislature is a governmental deliberative body with the power to adopt laws. Legislatures are known by many names, including: parliament congress diet and national assembly . In parliamentary systems of government, the legislature is formally supreme as felt increasing pressure to pass the Constitutional amendment because of the Vietnam WarThe Vietnam War was a war fought between 1957 and 1975 on the ground in South Vietnam and bordering areas of Cambodia and Laos See Secret War) and in bombing runs ( Rolling Thunder) over North Vietnam. See also the timeline of the Vietnam War. Fighting on, in which many young men who were ineligible to vote were conscriptedConscription or mandatory military service is a general term for government policies that require citizens to serve in their armed forces. It is known by various names, for example, in the United States it is known colloquially as the Draft . However, the to fight, and died. With this in his mind, President Lyndon Johnson asked Congress to propose an amendment lowering the voting age to 18 in the summer of 1968Events Undated Booker Prize for Fiction is established by Booker plc. 1968 is known as the year of the Prague Spring and also the year of the Paris riots. The ASCII character code is standardized as ANSI Standard X3. Nauru adopt his national anthem of the. The amendment passed through Congress when it was reintroduced by Randolph in 1971, and within months passed three-fourths of the state legislatures, more quickly than any other amendment. The 26th Amendment was formally certified by President Richard NixonRichard Milhous Nixon ( January 9, 1913 April 22, 1994) was the thirty-sixth ( 1953 1961) Vice President, and the thirty-seventh ( 1969 1974) President of the United States. He is the only man to have been elected twice to the Vice Presidency and twice to on July 5July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 179 days remaining. Events 1610 John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland. 1687 Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathem, 1971.