Ask Civics 101: Why Is Our Voting Age Eighteen?

We take it for granted that the voting age is eighteen in the United States, but it hasn’t always been this way. We lowered that age from twenty-one in the seventies — so does that mean we could lower it again? Who gets to make that decision? Ask Civics 101 is on the case.

 

 
 

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