In that case, said Tom Cecial, I was a madman of my own accord when I volunteered to become your squire, and, of my own accord, I'll leave off being one and go home. View in context
The 1984 National Minimum Drinking Age Act, [23 U.S.C. Â§ 158], requires that States prohibit persons under 21 years of age from purchasing or publicly possessing alcoholic beverages as a condition of receiving State highway funds.
thirty years ago this week congress passed a bill that effectively raised the national drinking age to 21 despite subsequent efforts to lower it in some states and the fact that most developed countries allow young people to legally drink at 18 that threshold has remained firmly in place ever since