The Twenty-sixth Amendment (Amendment XXVI) to the United States Constitution established a nationally standardized minimum age of 18 for participation in ...

Amendment Twenty-six to the Constitution was ratified on July 1, 1971. It lowered the voting age for all Americans to eighteen years.

17 июн. 2021 г. · Ratified in July 1971, the 26th Amendment to the United States Constitution lowered the voting age of US citizens from 21 to 18 years old.

The Court held that it was unconstitutional for Congress to lower the voting age in state and local elections, and thus that provision was struck down. Because ...

In 1971, the 26th amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, bringing the highest amount (55%) of 18 to 29 year-old voters to the polls in American ...

Mitchell (1970), a deeply divided Supreme Court held that Congress had authority to lower the voting age in federal elections, but lacked power to do so for ...

More than 50 years since its ratification, the 26th Amendment came at a pivotal time in American history when students and young people were expressing ...

16 февр. 2010 г. · The 26 Amendment lowered the legal voting age in the United States from 21 to 18. The long debate over lowering the voting age began during World War II.

Why was the 26th Amendment passed? Though Americans had debated lowering the voting age for decades, it was largely passed as a result of 18-20 year olds being ...

30 июн. 2021 г. · On July 1, 1971, our Nation ratified the 26th Amendment to the Constitution, lowering the voting age to 18.