If you are old enough to die FOR your country, you are old enough to vote IN your country.

While women began exercising their voices at the ballot box by 1920 and the last barriers to minority voting rights collapsed in 1965 there was a group of Americans that still had barriers placed before them to elect their leaders: America's young people! Not until July 1971 with the passage of the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was every state required to reduce the voting age minimum from 21 years of age to 18 years of age. Until this time, you could be shipped out to war to pay the ultimate price for our country and yet not even have the right to elect your representatives. America's youth were finally heard and President Richard M. Nixon ushered in the age of youth voting, just 35 years ago. The process to enact this amendment took 30 long years.