On this date, the 26th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. In the turmoil surrounding the unpopular Vietnam War, lowering the national voting age became a controversial topic. The Supreme Court upheld the legislation in a 5 to 4 vote in applying the lowered voting age to federal elections only.
Q. How did the twenty-sixth amendment affect the concerns of young people during the Vietnam War Brainly?
The answer is: It lowered the voting age, which helped make young people less skeptical. At that time, the large majority of people who oppose the vietnam war belong to the people in less than 25 year old age bracket. After the amendment, people who are 18 years or older will have the right to vote.
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- Q. How did the twenty-sixth amendment affect the concerns of young people during the Vietnam War Brainly?
- Q. How did the twenty-sixth amendment address the concerns of American youth during the Vietnam?
- Q. How did the twenty sixth amendment address concerns about age discrimination?
- Q. Why was the twenty sixth amendment passed?
- Q. How did 18 year olds gain the right to vote?
- Q. What was the big problem with the election of 1800?
- Q. How did the election of 1800 affect the United States?
Q. How did the twenty-sixth amendment address the concerns of American youth during the Vietnam?
How did the Twenty-Sixth Amendment address the concerns of American youth during the Vietnam War? It gave the president unlimited power to commit troops to war, giving young people one person to whom they could address their concerns.
Q. How did the twenty sixth amendment address concerns about age discrimination?
The citizens who are eighteen years of age or greater shall not be refused or compressed by the government authorities whether federal or state on the statement of age. It restricts states from segregating among voters based on age, for people who are at least 18 years old.
Q. Why was the twenty sixth amendment passed?
In the turmoil surrounding the unpopular Vietnam War, lowering the national voting age became a controversial topic. Responding to arguments that those old enough to be drafted for military service, should be able to exercise the right to vote, Congress lowered the voting age as part of the Voting Rights Act of 1970.
Q. How did 18 year olds gain the right to vote?
An amendment to a bill extending the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (H.R. 4249) expanded the right to vote in national, state, and local elections to citizens 18 years and older. The proposed 26th Amendment passed the House and Senate in the spring of 1971 and was ratified by the states on July 1, 1971.
Q. What was the big problem with the election of 1800?
The extremely partisan and outright nasty campaign failed to provide a clear winner because of a constitutional quirk. Presidential electors were required to vote for two people for the offices of president and vice-president. The individual receiving the highest number of votes would become president.
Q. How did the election of 1800 affect the United States?
In what is sometimes referred to as the “Revolution of 1800”, Vice President Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party defeated incumbent President John Adams of the Federalist Party. The election was a political realignment that ushered in a generation of Democratic-Republican leadership.
