Alan Greenblatt The Age Of Responsibility Summary

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What is the true age of responsibility? This question is addressed by Alan Greenblatt in his article “The Age of Responsibility”(2009), where as a political author he suggests that the age requirement system is outdated. He does this by giving various facts on informative statements on laws regarding age. Through Greenblatt's persuasive statements he supports my argument that there are some restrictions which I do agree need to be changed, but there is still few that are fine the way they. The Government age requirement laws of rental car restrictions are set at a too high of age, however the government does a good job setting the drinking age at twenty one. In Greenblatt’s article he proposes the question, if the drinking age in America

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