18 years olds got the vote in 1971.
18 years olds got the vote in 1971.
when did 18 years olds get the vote?
1971
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
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kingi te ahoaho tahiwi (1883–1948) was a notable new zealand teacher, interpreter, translator, rugby official and musician. of māori descent, he identified with the ngāti raukawa, ngāti whakaue and te arawa iwi. he was born in otaki, new zealand, in 1883. pirimi pererika tahiwi was one of his younger brothers.









































in the 1946 new year honours, tahiwi was appointed an officer of the order of the british empire for services in connection with the organisation of the māori war effort.
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