Lower The Voting Age

Lower the Voting AgeThe Campaign To Lower the voting age in the United States from 21 to 18--and thus to involve 12,000,000 young Americans in the most basic process of democracy--appears closer to victory now than at any time since it began in earnest in 1942. For the first time, both the majority and the minority leaders of the U. S. Senate are among 40 members of that body cosponsoring a resolution that calls for a constitutional amendment to lower the voting age to 18. On the other side of C...