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Engdahl, Sylvia, Editor

Amendment XXVI: Lowering the Voting Age

223 pp. | Greenhaven | December, 2009 | Library ISBN 978-0-7377-4453-8 $34.70
(4) YA Constitutional Amendments: Beyond the Bill of Rights series. This text-heavy volume compiles twenty-three essays, articles, etc., about the twenty-sixth amendment, which lowered the voting age (for federal elections) to eighteen. Issues include Congress's right to change the voting age, the wisdom of this act, and the impact on local elections. Authors include politicians (Richard Nixon, Ted Kennedy), Supreme Court justices (John Marshall Harlan, William O. Douglas, Hugo Black), and journalists. Reading list, timeline, websites. Ind.
Reviewer: Jack Forman

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