Posted on 03/15/2019 8:31:51 AM PDT by MosesKnows
The Constitution left voting privileges up to the states. What age, sex, or race allowed to vote was a decision each state was free to legislative.
I recall the argument in favor of allowing eighteen year olds to vote in Federal Elections. The arguments had merit and the nation ratified the 26th Amendment.
Section 1
The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
Section 2
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
The amendment is not the law. Section 1 is not legislation. Section 2 adds the congressional legislative power that was lacking.
Now discussions are about sixteen year olds voting in Federal Elections and the arguments lack merit mainly of what I have learned about teenagers’ mental development.
What I learned that causes me to disapprove of the notion of sixteen year olds voting was a video from the World Economic Forum answering the question, “Why Are Teenagers Rude?”
I won’t share my reasoning at this time but I’ll share the link so you can form your own opinion of sixteen year olds voting in Federal Elections.
Why Teenagers Seem Rude and Selfish
I posted this because of the way Congress has turned their legislative responsibilities over to the agencies engineers and scientist.
What is the science behind mental development, voting, and the acceptance of responsibility?
No. Next question.
NO.
Eff NO.
^*&$^% effun &(*^^% NO!
Questions?
Like, wow, you know, like that’s so cool and omg!................
No. Dumb question.
Seems a little contradictory when they also want the age for legal firearms purchases to be raised to 21 and to keep the age for drinking a beer at that age as well.
I suggest we eliminate voting where an incumbent is running. It’s basically a waste of time.
Isaiah 3:4 - NIV
“I will make mere youths their officials; children will rule over them.”
They are generally too uninformed to vote in high school elections.
Well, I, for one, knew EVERYTHING when I was 16. Of course that was in 1963 and we didn’t need to know as much then. But, based on some of the recent (s)elections, it appears that raising it would be the correct direction to take.
The human brain is not fully developed until age 25. That is what I think it should be raised to.
Sixteen year-olds voting? What, the demoKKKrats don’t have enough illegals and dead people voting to win elections?
Personally I think too many 16 year-olds are too smart to fall for the ‘rat scam. They need to lower the voting age to about 6, maybe 5.
NO, and FELONS should not vote either!!!!
No one should be able to vote until they are 35 AND paying taxes.
You mean you wouldn’t let the “Tide Pod Generation” have a say-so in our government?.....................
Democrats are desperate to add as many voters as possible by any means possible. They MUST overthrow Trump and if legitimate American voters won’t do it, then they’ll find/invent new voters.
Only if they can 1) be drafted, 2) be able to sign financial contracts 3) pay taxes 4) be held accountable as adults in any court action....need I go on? In other words OF COURSE NOT, AND ANYONE SUGGESTING THIS SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE AND/OR PUT IN A STRAIT JACKET...THEY ARE A DANGER.
OH HELL NO!!!!!!!!!
“My research shows that, by adult standards, children are....insane!”
- WKRP in Cincinnati
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