The basic principles our Founders sought to ground the American experiment on—citizens deciding how they would be governed, leaders subservient to their populaces—depends upon every person the government affects having a voice. Because those below 18 are barred from voting, young people oftentimes feel disenfranchised. They aren’t incorrect in that feeling: It is hard to have no say in how the ship of state is steered when we are hurt by every school budget cut, every elimination of an afterschool program, every step the government doesn’t take to invest in the future young people will inherit. It is fundamentally unfair that we the quality of our schools, the health of our environment, the richness of our opportunity depend upon a government that doesn’t have to listen to
The basic principles our Founders sought to ground the American experiment on—citizens deciding how they would be governed, leaders subservient to their populaces—depends upon every person the government affects having a voice. Because those below 18 are barred from voting, young people oftentimes feel disenfranchised. They aren’t incorrect in that feeling: It is hard to have no say in how the ship of state is steered when we are hurt by every school budget cut, every elimination of an afterschool program, every step the government doesn’t take to invest in the future young people will inherit. It is fundamentally unfair that we the quality of our schools, the health of our environment, the richness of our opportunity depend upon a government that doesn’t have to listen to