Pros And Cons To Lowering The Voting Age To 18. Pros Include: Rising Level Of Education, Idealism And Enthusiasm Of Young People, "old Enough To Fight Old Enough To Vote", Legally Of Age, And Important Aspect Of Training For Youth Citizenship. Cons Include: Lack Of Maturity, Other Representative Democracies Have Voting Age Of 21, And Voting Should Not Be The Training Grounds For Citizenship.

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February 27, 1964, Library of Congress Legislative Reference Service: Lowering the Minimum Voting Age to 18 Years Pros and Cons

Identifier:
EMD_Working_Papers-f363-1966_06_08
Contributing Institution:
The Dirksen Congressional Center, Pekin, IL
Title:
February 27, 1964, Library of Congress Legislative Reference Service: Lowering the Minimum Voting Age to 18 Years Pros and Cons
Date Created:
June 8, 1966
EDTF:
1966-06-08
Creator:
Jones, Doris
Rights:
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Language:
eng
Record Type:
minutes (administrative records)
Collection:
Everett McKinley Dirksen Papers
Collection Finding Aid:
https://dirksencenter.org/collections/dirksen/collection/papers/
Description:
Pros And Cons To Lowering The Voting Age To 18. Pros Include: Rising Level Of Education, Idealism And Enthusiasm Of Young People, "old Enough To Fight Old Enough To Vote", Legally Of Age, And Important Aspect Of Training For Youth Citizenship. Cons Include: Lack Of Maturity, Other Representative Democracies Have Voting Age Of 21, And Voting Should Not Be The Training Grounds For Citizenship.
Policy Area:
Government Operations and Politics, Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues, Law
Names:
Jones, Doris
Congress:
88th (1963-1965)
Physical Location:
Everett Dirksen Working Papers, Box 5, Folder 363
Type:
Text