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	Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The amendment prohibits both the federal government and the states from using a person's sex as a qualification to vote; it was specifically intended to extend suffrage to women.
		On February 27, 1922, a challenge to the 19th Amendment was rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
		Unlike the other voting rights amendments (the 15th, 23rd and 26th), the Congressional power of enforcement clause was kept in the same section as the granting of the right.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/19th_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution (486 words)

	Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This amendment prohibits both the federal government and the state governments from using an age greater than 18 as a qualification for voting.
		Congress and the state legislatures felt increasing pressure to pass the Constitutional amendment because of the Vietnam War, in which many young men who were ineligible to vote were conscripted to fight, and died.
		The 26th Amendment was formally certified by President Richard Nixon on July 1, 1971.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Twenty-sixth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution (464 words)

	United States House of Representatives - Amendments to the Constitution
		The amendment was rejected (and not subsequently ratified) by Mississippi, December 4, 1865.
		The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the Thirty-ninth Congress, on the 13th of June, 1866.
		The twenty-first amendment to the Constitution was proposed to the several states by the Seventy-Second Congress, on the 20th day of February, 1933, and was declared, in a proclamation by the Secretary of State, dated on the 5th day of December, 1933, to have been ratified by 36 of the 48 States.
	www.house.gov /house/Constitution/Amend.html (2086 words)

	Notes on the Amendments - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
		The ratification of the 13th Amendment was a major victory for the North, and it was hoped that with the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment, the effects of slavery in the United States would quickly diminish.
		Though ratification of the 15th Amendment was not a requirement for readmittance to the Congress of the Confederate states, one of the provisions of the Reconstruction Acts required that the states include a provision in their new constitutions that included a near-copy of the text of the 15th.
		Anthony later used the 15th Amendment as rationale for voting in a New York election, and though she was tried and fined for voting, the ordeal proved an impetus for the eventual guarantee of voting rights for women.
	www.usconstitution.net /constamnotes.html (4350 words)

	The Constitution Explained - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
		The Constitution is often hailed as a marvel of brevity and of clarity.
		The 5th Amendment protects people from being held for committing a crime unless they are properly indicted, that they may not be tried twice for the same crime, that you need not be forced to testify against yourself, and from property being taken without just compensation.
		The 10th Amendment is the subject of some debate, but essentially it states that any power not granted to the federal government belongs to the states or to the people.
	www.usconstitution.net /constquick.html (2130 words)

	All Amendments to the United States Constitution
		This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
		This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
		This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/education/all_amendments_usconst.htm (1720 words)

	TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In 1970, the voters of Florida were presented with and defeated an amendment that would have lowered the voting age in Florida from age 21 to age 18.
		Subsequently, the 26th Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted that lowered the voting age from age 21 to age 18.
		Because the United States Constitution controls on this issue and because Floridians age 18 and older presently vote in Florida, it appears appropriate that Article VI, section 2 should be amended to reflect that the voting age is now age 18.
	www.law.fsu.edu /crc/newslet/nov96/technica.html (232 words)

	Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
		Amendment XI (The proposed amendment was sent to the states Mar. 5, 1794, by the Third Congress.
		Amendment XV (The proposed amendment was sent to the states Feb. 27, 1869, by the Fortieth Congress.
		Amendment XX (The proposed amendment, sometimes called the “Lame Duck Amendment,” was sent to the states Mar. 3, 1932, by the Seventy-second Congress.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0749825.html (2079 words)

	Constitution for the United States of America
		The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.
		The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
		ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution.
	www.deoxy.org /fz/consti.htm (4518 words)

	I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The result was the 26th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which lowered the voting age to 18 for all elected positions, federal and state.
		Countries outside the United States seem to be more internally consistent: They usually have one minimum age that applies throughout that nation; the legal consequences when an underage minor is involved in otherwise legal gambling do not vary from one province to another; and, the same minimum age applies to different forms of legal gambling.
		The state statutes prevent any person under 18 from entering a racecourse except when accompanied by a person 18 years of age or older who is the person’s parent, guardian, or spouse, or when in the performance of a duty incident to employment.
	www.gamblingandthelaw.com /agechart.html (12113 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Faced with the prospect of having to implement two different election systems, a Constitutional Amendment was passed shortly after the Supreme Court decision and sent to the states for ratification.
		On July 5, 1971, the 26th Amendment of the United States Constitution was declared ratified.
		Today, "The right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 years of age or older, to vote, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of age" is the law of our nation.
	www.sec.state.vt.us /kids/votevt/vvkc/dia/index2.htm (1311 words)

	Opinion #5512
		Honorably discharged members of the armed forces of the United States or of this state and who reside in the veterans' facility established by this state may acquire a residence where the facility is located.
		Under the 1908 Constitution, it had been ruled that prior to discharge, a patient in a state mental hospital could not acquire domicile or residence different from that at time of committment, OAG, 1961-1962, No 3548, p 1 (January 5, 1961).
		Voluntary residents of the Pilgrim State Psychiatry Center were permitted to vote because they had maintained their residence at the Center for many years and evidenced their intent to remain there within the foreseeable future.
	www.ag.state.mi.us /opinion/datafiles/1970s/op05512.htm (1057 words)

	Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.: The Right to Vote
		However, our Constitution only provides explicitly for non-discrimination in voting on the basis of race, sex, and age in the 15th, 19th and 26th Amendments respectively.
		According to Harvard's Constitutional Law Professor Alexander Keyssar 108 of the 119 nations in the world that elect their representatives to all levels of government in some democratic fashion explicitly guarantee their citizens the right to vote in their Constitution.
		The United States is one of the eleven nations in the world that doesn't provide an explicit right to vote in its Constitution.
	www.house.gov /jackson/VotingAmendment.htm (518 words)

	ThisNation.com--The United States Constitution
		The United States Constitution (click on image at right for high-resolution view) was groundbreaking in numerous ways, establishing a new government, the likes of which the world had never seen.
		The most significant features of the U.S. Constitution are the establishment of the rule of law, the creation of a federal system with a supreme national government, the separation of governmental powers into three branches that check and balance each other, its flexibility and the establishment of a republican form of government.
		The Constitution is considered the supreme law of the land both because of its content and because its authority is derived from the people.
	www.thisnation.com /constitution.html (723 words)

	Looking Back on a Glorious Past 1691-1991
		The right of a woman to be a juror has never been explicitly included in the language of the State Constitution, but it is part of the constitutional common law and, at this point in our history, it cannot be disputed that the state constitutional interpretation protects that right.
		As with age requirements, the focus of the qualification to serve became the ability of an individual juror to perform his or her duty: the rule was inclusive.
		Prison guards and employees of state asylums were exempted except in New York and Kings counties, In New York County an editor, editorial writer or reporter of a daily newspaper was exempted; in 1909 that exemption was applied statewide.
	www.courts.state.ny.us /history/elecbook/barjournal/pg17.htm (1017 words)

	United States Constitution
		They shall in all cases, except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any speech or debate in either house, they shall not be questioned in any other place.
		No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.
		This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission.
	pavisnet.com /constitution (4006 words)

	House OKs flag desecration amendment - Politics - MSNBC.com
		The amendment’s supporters expressed optimism that a Republican gain of four seats in last November’s election could produce the two-thirds approval needed in the Senate as well after four failed attempts since 1989.
		Amendment, in 1971, extended the right to vote to citizens as young as 18.
		The period for states to ratify it expired in 1982.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/8318974 (793 words)

	The Land of the Free - Conservative Politics Web Site
		It is true that, in a state of nature, any one individual may act uncontrolled by others; but it is equally true that, in such a state, every other individual may act uncontrolled by him.
		Ratification of the Constitution by the State of North Carolina November 21, 1789 "That all power is naturally vested in, and consequently derived from the people; that magistrates therefore are their trustees, and agents, and at all times amenable to them."
		Ratification of the Constitution by the State of North Carolina November 21, 1789 "That Government ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection and security of the people; and that the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish, and destructive to the good and happiness of mankind."
	www.thelandofthefree.net /righttovote.html (1915 words)

	United States Constitution--Constitutional Rights Foundation
		We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
		Amendment I. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
		Amendment X. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
	www.crf-usa.org /links/cja/US_Constitution.htm (4023 words)

	Kucinich Floor Statements - Election Reform
		In the State’s capital, a shortage of voting machines in predominantly African American communities was created, even though the Secretary of State knew far in advance that 102,000 new voters were registered in that county alone.
		The right to vote is expressly protected by the 15th amendment, the 19th and the 24th amendment, and the 26th amendment to the United States Constitution.
		It is that right which binds us as a Nation, which creates the unity of States, which legitimizes the government, which enfranchises not just the people, but in which reposes the treasure of the American people, a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
	www.kucinich.us /floor_speeches/elec_ohioelectoral.php?print=y (525 words)

	Youth Vote
		The road to this landmark amendment was not a smooth one.
		He felt that young adults should be enfranchised through a constitutional amendment, but did not want to veto the whole Voting Rights Act, which he believed was a vital piece of civil rights legislation.
		In December of 1970, a constitutional amendment that gave 18-year-olds the right to vote in all elections was introduced into the Senate.
	www.lwvcef.org /youthvote (1250 words)

	Freedom Activist Network's Constitution of the United States
		Articles in addition to, and amendment of, the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by legislatures of the several States pursuant to the fifth article of the original Constitiution.
		The right of the people to be secure in the persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
		After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
	www.freedomactivist.net /usconstitution.html (4714 words)

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		As silly as the idea sounds, that could be the unexpected result of an even sillier proposal by State Sen. John Vasconcellos' (D-Santa Clara), to give 14-year-olds one-quarter of a vote and 16-year-olds one-half in state elections.
		Although almost every state lowered the drinking age to 18 during the early 1970s, the 1980s saw a nationwide movement to return it to 21.
		In 1984, Congress required a drinking age of 21 for states to be eligible for federal highway funds.
	www.gamblingandthelaw.com /columns/165_14_year_olds_vote.htm (778 words)

	CRC - Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In 1971, the 26th Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted providing citizens who are 18 years or older the right to vote.
		Therefore, a technical amendment is needed to conform Florida’s Constitution with the United States Constitution.
		The four-year terms would be staggered so that not all districts throughout the state would elect their representatives at the same time.
	www.law.fsu.edu /crc/amend/sheet1.html (172 words)

	CasinoGaming.com
		In that case, the Court looked at the evidence, experience, other states and common sense in concluding that keeping the group most likely to become involved in drunk driving accidents off the road protected not only those young adults, but society in general.
		The result is a mishmash of gambling age limits, differing not only from state to state but even within a single state.
		We all know it is a legal fiction to state that individuals are incapable of making decisions on the day before their 18th birthday and completely competent adults the day after.
	www.casinogaming.com /law/law2.html (971 words)

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