teenagers, is there anything they don't know???
Posted on 08/13/2018 12:34:24 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Rep. Grace Meng is sponsoring a resolution that would extend the right to vote to U.S. citizens 16 years of age or older.
The New York Democrat’s resolution, introduced earlier this month, would repeal the 26th Amendment of the Constitution, which currently states the right to vote for citizens who are 18 years of age or older "shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State."
If the resolution is passed, the amendment would instead say the right to vote for citizens who are 16 years of age or older "shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State."
The resolution comes several months after a City Council member in Washington, D.C., Charles Allen (D), introduced legislation that would lower the age to vote in federal and local elections to 16.
At the time, Allen said he proposed the legislation after seeing high school students organize and participate in the March for Our Lives event in D.C. to protest gun violence and demand new gun laws.
The U.S. voting age was last changed in 1971 after a decades-long fight. Proponents of the 26th Amendment argued that any citizen who was old enough to be drafted into the military at age 18 should also be afforded the right to vote.
A resolution cannot repeal a constitutional amendment.
Someone needs to take his ass to the woodshed. Hes making the idiots look stupid.
At what age is it legal for someone in the military to handle and shoot a gun of any kind?
We should be changing the voting age to 26 years old.
The Democrats when the passed ObamaCare told us children don’t become adults until they are 26 years old.
Total B$. Harry Truman was asked about lowering the voting agate 18 and he said(rightly) It makes more sense to raise it to 25.
The notion that if you are old enough to fight you are old enough to vote is exactly why we let buck privates run theaters of operations, right?
Absolutely. Age 45 would be about right, plus restrict the franchise to owners of real property.
It really should be raised to at least 25.
The new voters will think Ocassio is a wise old woman who can teach them so much about economics and political systems that they won’t need college after all.
Remember over 40% of young people in their 20s in a survey could not correctly place which was first and second: the American Civil War and the 2nd World War.
Today’s 16 year olds have the intellect and maturity of 5 year olds 50 years ago. ........................................ LOL, today’s 30 yr olds are like the 16 yr olds of 50 yrs ago in some ways. They seem to still be 16.
You can't amend the Constitution by resolution. We understand that stupid democRats need stupid voters, but this won't fly.
17, under direct supervision.
It needs to be pushed back up to 21 yrs old where it was till 1973.
How about 5 and then they could register on their first day of kindergarten.
Or buy beer.
You’re either an Adult or you are not.
Maybe I missed a day of school or forgot something I learned in Civics class, or maybe The Hill writer did or the Congresscritter did, but isn't changing the Constitution just a little bit more complicated than passing a resolution?
Raise it up to when you get off your parent’s health insurance policy, that’s when your an adult.
Some may talk about how the fact that we live longer now, than in the past is reason for this; however, that's NOT the case! People used to be raised to accept the fact that at 21, one was supposed to be a fully formed, responsible adult, which hasn't been the case for many decades now. And the education system, public, private, whatever is now so damned dumbed down, that several generations have nor grown up being uneducated, propagandized, and far less knowledgeable than ever before...even with, or perhaps because of spending a long time in school rooms.
That’s WHY I posted as I did. :-)
teenagers, is there anything they don't know???
Maybe the 19th.
“Rep. Grace Meng is sponsoring a resolution that would extend the right to vote to U.S. citizens 16 years of age or older”
I’m still trying to find that ‘right to vote’ clause/amendment in the Constitution...Can anyone help? /s
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