Twenty-Sixth Amendment  Reduction of Voting Age

• Twenty-Sixth Amendment
  • Overview of Twenty-Sixth Amendment, Reduction of Voting Age
• Historical Background
  • Voter Age Qualifications in the Early United States
  • Voter Age Qualifications, World War II, and the 1940s
  • Voter Age Qualifications, the Korean War, and the 1950s
  • The Vietnam War, Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1970, and Oregon v. Mitchell
  • Proposal of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment: Introduction and Committee Action
  • Proposal of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment: Congressional Floor Debates and Final Passage
  • Ratification of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment
  • The Scope of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment
• Section 1 Eighteen Years of Age
• Section 2 Enforcement