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Letter to the Committee on the Judiciary Regarding Suffrage for 18-Year Olds

Record Group 233: Records of the U.S. House of RepresentativesSeries: Committee Papers of the Committee on the Judiciary

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Teen activists with signs supporting the ratification of the 26th Amendment (which lowered the national U.S. voting from 21 to age 18), 1969

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The promises of the 26th Amendment remain unfulfilled.

Excerpt:

“The last time Congress ratified a voting rights amendment to the US Constitution was only 55 years ago, but most people could not tell you what it is. The 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, but its promises continue to be unfulfilled.

“The November 2025 election outcomes remind us of its purpose, consistent with that of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to “encourage greater political participation on the part of the young.” This month’s election results are a wake-up call as the nation grapples with what feels like a new unprecedented constitutional and moral crisis every day—and young voters set the alarm. Eighty percent of young voters supported California Proposition 50, aimed to “neutralize the partisan gerrymandering” threatened by GOP-lead states—the largest proportion of any voter age cohort. In New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, youth turnout boomed this cycle, with overall voter rates similarly on the rise.

“But 2025 may prove to be an outlier. Since the passage of the 26th Amendment, the overall trend is that youth voting rates have lagged compared with every other age cohort. Compare the 18–24 voter turnout in 2024 (47.7 percent) with the 65+ group (74.7 percent)—a margin of 27 points. The widespread voting disparities between the youngest and eldest age groups is a pattern, not an anomaly: The margin was greater in 1982, when the last class of baby boomers first came out to vote.

“What is preventing American’s youngest voters from turning out? While voter enthusiasm is certainly key, systemic mechanisms uniquely hold this constitutionally protected class of voters at bay.”

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so this was for a school assignment, where I explain some of the Amendments through memes

tell me which one is your fav :3

then a couple general memes related to this :3

this was not part of the assignment but remember to check your voter registration.

also daily clicks. because free palestine.

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Last Night was good, but not time to stop and pat on the backs. The youth came out in force in 2012 then too, but it can't be one time, it has to be all the time even between the every 2 yeas. Always stay awake, and always stay aware. The fact that they are saying "Darn those kids" like they always do, means they really don't want the youth to pay attention to what's being taken away from them, and what has been taken away from us already over the past 20 years. As a nation we have lost a lot of freedoms over the past 20 years, and we have so many in comparison to many other nations that we don't fully take notice of it. But thats the thing the slow chip away eventually erodes into no freedom's left over time.

So it has to be a constant effort to always stay aware, stay woke, and piss off old people who want to keep you under their heel.

I mean yeah if you want to take away women's Right to chose (even in a case of medical emergency) and want to screw up Transkids. Yeah 18 - 20 year old first time voters might not like that that kind of future for themselves and their friends.. Or shocker of shock, someone they don't even know but still have empathy for. Speaking of Empathy, because this is why the 26th Amendment happened for the right to vote at 18

This is STILL a relatively free country, keep fighting, and don't get tired and as cap would say

I can do this All day!

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#Nixon50 #OTD 7/5/1971 The 26th Amendment to the Constitution, which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, was certified by Robert L. Kunzig, General Services Administrator. President Nixon and three 18-year-old students from "Young Americans in Concert" (Julianne Jones, Joseph W. Loyd, Jr., and Paul S. Larimer) signed as witnesses. (Image: WHPO-6749-09A)

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Will you join me?

On this day in 1971: The 26th Amendment was officially ratified, lowering the Right to Vote from 21 years old to 18. Today, celebrate your right to vote with our great toolkit "Voting for Love and Justice with Wonder Woman"!

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