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Old enough to fight for my country, old enough to vote
18-year-olds students controlled the advocates for the 26th Amendment to get the voting age lower than 21. The students protested during the Vietnam -
The older standing up for the younger?
In 1943, Harley Kilgore, one of the first senators stood up for the younger generations. Even with many senators on board to sign the bill, Congress didn't let it pass. -
Georgia Changes?!
In 1943 Georgia changed its voting age from 21 down to 18 on August 3rd, 1943 -
The president starts to support the movment?
The first time a president supported lowering the voting age was Dwight D. Eisenhower. He was the 34th president and brought the idea upon Congress to sign the bill and giving 18-year-olds the chance to vote. -
the voting act gets signed?
The 37th president of the United States in 1970 signed to extend the Voting Act, which required every state to set the minimum voting age at 18, after the amendment was signed into the constitution no country could get around it. -
The amendment Signed by attorney
The 26th amendment was signed by a genreal service adminstation named of Robert L. Kunzig -
The standard
With the signing of the 26th amendments is made were the minimum voting age for every state was 18 -
The senators voted
The senators if the United States at the time voted 94-0 to propose the amendment of changing the voting age from 21 down to 18. The 26th Amendment would ensure that the voting age wouldn't be higher than 18 or higher than 18. -
The amendment was passed
on July 1, 1971, the 26th amendment was signed into the constitution lowering the voting age from 2 down to 18 in every country of the United States