Amendment Xxvi : : Lowering the Voting age

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Foreword -- Amendment text and explanation -- Introduction -- Chronology -- 1: Historical Background On The Twenty-Sixth Amendment -- Lowering the voting age was not a new idea / Thomas H Neale -- Young people are mobilizing to demand to vote / Susan H Carter -- Teen voting would accelerate undesirable changes in the democratic process / William G Carleton -- Time has come to let young people vote / Edward M Kennedy -- Constitutional amendment may not be needed to lower the voting age / Fred P Graham -- Changing the voting age will require a constitutional amendment / Richard Nixon -- 2: Constitutional Implications Of The New Law -- Voting rights act passed by congress is valid only for National elections / Hugo Black -- Congress can set a minimum voting age under the Equal protection clause / William O Douglas -- Congress is not authorized to set a minimum voting age / John Marshall Harlan -- No legitimate reason exists for states not to allow voting at age eighteen / William J Brennan -- Only a constitutional amendment can override the State's right to set their voting ages / Potter Stewart -- 3: Amendment XXVI And Its Consequences -- Teens have mixed feelings about gaining the vote / Mary Lou Loper -- States are being extorted into ratifying the twenty-sixth amendment / James J Kilpatrick -- Majority of Americans favor the twenty-sixth amendment / George Gallup -- Effect of young voters on politics is unpredictable / David S Broder -- When the youth vote was young: student voters had more important impact on local elections than on the National elections / Clyde Brown and Gayle K Pluta Brown -- 4: Youth Vote In Contemporary America -- Many state laws make it difficult for college student to vote / Adam Doster -- Students can vote in their college towns if they meet residency requirements / Greg Abbott -- Right of students to vote in their college towns is often misinterpreted / Michael I Krauss -- Students are sometimes given inaccurate information about voter registration / Elizabeth Redden -- Twenty-sixth amendment should be repealed / Timothy Furnish -- Voting age should be lowered to sixteen / National youth rights association -- Sixteen-year-olds should become politically active to gain the vote / Ralph Nader -- Appendices -- A: Amendments to the US Constitution -- Court cases relevant to the twenty-sixth amendment -- For further research -- Index.
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