Amendment Proposal
For my Constitutional Amendment proposal, I have chosen to make a notion to revamp the
26th Amendment on voting age. My opinion is that the minimum voting age should be lowered to the
age of sixteen. This proposed bill would have to first be taken in front of Congress to allow them a
vote. If it two-thirds of Congress voted in favor of the bill, it would then move to the House of
Representatives. Here it would have to have the same success as in the congress to be passed as an
amendment. In essence, the bill must be approved by three-fourths of the states or it will not be
passed. It also has to be passed in a certain amount of time or it will be dropped. This period is usually
less then seven years.
There are a few reasons that I would like to propose this new amendment to modify the 26th
United States
Joint Resolution Proposing the Twenty-sixth Amendm...
voting day in a small townamendment. First, in today's present society, it has not been uncommon for children as early as thirteen
years old have been tried as adults. Now this may not seem like a double standard, but my second
point may be rather my conclusive. Youth as young as fourteen years of age can get employment in
present day America. Now apart of this job naturally is the pay check, and as law the law requires a
portion of the pay must be given to the government in the form of taxes. So if a young man work for
four years from the age of fourteen on, he will pay that much money to the government for leaders to
spend on that he has not even voted for. In my opinion, this far from just. No I do not believe that
voting age should be fourteen, but...