Скачать или смотреть Q54: How old do citizens have to be to vote for president?

Discover the age requirement for voting in U.S. presidential elections and the historical journey to this milestone. Citizens must be at least 18 years old to vote for the president, a right enshrined by the 26th Amendment. Initially, the 14th Amendment granted voting rights to male citizens aged 21 or older. It wasn’t until the Vietnam War when many young soldiers under 21 couldn’t vote for their leaders, that momentum grew to lower the voting age. The Congress acted, but it took the 26th Amendment to unify the voting age at 18 for all elections, ratified in record time in 1971. Understand the significance of this change and its effect on American democracy.

Check out more videos like this in our Civics Fundamentals series with Judge Douglas Ginsburg. This is question 54 of the 100 questions asked on the U.S. naturalization test.

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