So you all want to get rid of the 14th, 16th, 19th, and 24th Amendments. Add in the 26th and the only people voting would be old white guys. You all would be in heaven.
Not sure why you tagged me on this, given my only comment on this thread.
You say that is if that would be a bad thing.
Not even close to what I said!
The trouble with the 14th has nothing to do with it's citizenship aspects, but the latter portion of it which creates the "incorporation" doctrine and other abuses. Also I do not regard it as having passed through a legitimate process and so I consider it tainted though no one else does.
The 19th was just stupid and it has produced stupid results. Men may make mistakes, but adding in a lot more mistakes doesn't produce a better outcome.
Now your assertion regarding the 24th is interesting, because it is the amendment that does away with tax paying as a requirement for voting, and you say it would only leave old white men voting. Are you implying black people don't pay taxes?
I think you are just knee jerk on that one and didn't really bother to think it through before you said it.
As for the 26th, that was produced during the Vietnam War to allow cowards who didn't want to fight, to have more control over the political process. It was stupid and never should have been passed. I would accept the idea for 18 year old people in the armed services voting, but to give the vote to 18 year olds that don't fight?
No. Stupid idea. Also 21 is not "old."
The entire point was to allow people to get out of high school and live in the real world for a few years before they started voting, so that they would have an actual grasp of real life problems and would not do the knee jerk youthful liberalism that doesn't grasp taxes, work, responsibility and other more mature ideas.
Going back to the 19th, it wasn't that big of a problem initially because you still had the payment of taxes requirement and the 21 year age requirement to vote. This mitigated most of the bubbleheaded stupid women who are the primary problem with elections nowadays.