Essay On Twenty-Sixth Amendment

Abstract The Twenty-Sixth Amendment has the right to be repealed by Congress.During the time period of the Vietnam War of the Cold War, where the United States had conscripted their men into soldiers to fight against the communists in Vietnam. The main reason for the men to be drafted is to protect the South Vietnam from being taken over by the North Vietnam. As the American men were being drafted into the war, they were recently a few number of men who burned their draft cards in as an act of violation. This eventually invokes the government by enforcing the men to be sent into prison by actually burning their draft cards as a representation of protest. The long, infuriate debate over the protest of burning draft cards had started since World War II, and becomes intensified eventually in the Vietnam …show more content…
This caused the Congress made over sixty resolutions; although, none of which had attempted to create an impact upon lowering the minimum voting age. In the following year of 1970,while the US Congress established the bill, which extends yet amends the Voting Rights of 1965, it contained a provision that lowered the voting age to 18 into Federal, State, and local elections.The Senator,Ted Kennedy, had recommended to proposed of amending the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to lower the voting age nationally in the states. Senator Ted Kennedy contradicts the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment allowed the Congress to pass the national legislation by lowering the voting age;although, President Nixon disagreed with Ted Kennedy, as he asserts the issue is not whether the voting age is constitutional. President Nixon argued that the voting age requirements was discriminating would eventually caused a reaction to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the Voting Act Rights would be disastrous.On June 22, 1970, President Richard Nixon signs the Voting Rights