History of the United States II / Unit 15 USH2 2129 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Twenty-sixth Amendment
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The idea
The Twenty-sixth Amendment, passed by Congress on March twenty-third and ratified on July first, nineteen seventy-one, lowered the voting age to eighteen, the National Archives records.
In practice
Its words: the right of citizens eighteen or older to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of age.
Where people slip
The anchor does not carry the amendment; the ratification took barely three months.
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