the age to vote changed to 18 in 2008.
the age to vote changed to 18 in 2008.
when did the age to vote changed to 18?
2008
in the united states, suffrage originally could not be denied on account of age only to those 21 years of age or older; this age is mentioned in the fourteenth amendment to the united states constitution. the twenty-sixth amendment to the united states constitution, ratified on july 1, 1971, lowered that age to 18. the primary impetus for this change was the fact that young men were being drafted to fight in the vietnam war before they were old enough to vote. there have been many proposals to lower the voting age even further. in 2004, california state senator john vasconcellos (d-santa clara) proposed a youth suffrage constitutional amendment called training wheels for citizenship that would give 14-year-olds a quarter vote, 16-year-olds a half vote, and 17-year-olds a full vote.
youth suffrage
bullet::::- philippines (vote: for): in the days before the vote, philippines representative general carlos p. romulo stated "we hold that the issue is primarily moral. the issue is whether the united nations should accept responsibility for the enforcement of a policy which is clearly repugnant to the valid nationalist aspirations of the people of palestine. the philippines government holds that the united nations ought not to accept such responsibility." after a phone call from washington, the representative was recalled and the philippines' vote changed.
united nations partition plan for palestine