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Congressional power of enforcement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Court decided that the law was a valid exercise of Congress's enforcement power under the Fourteenth Amendment, because it was aimed at remedying state-sponsored discrimination. |
| | Mitchell, the Court held that Congress had exceeded its power by attempting to require the states to reduce the voting age to 18. |
| | This led to adoption of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the Constitution in 1971, which provided that the states could not set a minimum voting age higher than 18. |
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