To: BikerNYC
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The draft age was 18 back to Civil War times at least. The voting age was 21 back to the time of the Constitution's beginning.
I think the idea was one had to serve in the military to earn the full rights of citizenship. This concept went back as far as the Spartans and Ancient Romans.
45 posted on
12/10/2003 7:48:47 PM PST by
ZULU
To: ZULU
I think the law was changed because the Supreme Court held that you could not draft a citizen without giving him the right to vote for those who were sending him to war. Not an unreasonable proposition, IMHO.
49 posted on
12/13/2003 7:34:19 PM PST by
BikerNYC
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