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	Twenty-sixth Amendment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution - grants suffrage to those eighteen years of age and older.
		Twenty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland - permitted the state to ratify the Nice Treaty.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Twenty-sixth_amendment (107 words)

	Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amendment XXVI (the Twenty-sixth Amendment) of the United States Constitution states:
		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 right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Twenty-sixth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution (469 words)

	Election Law @ Moritz - e-Book (Part 1: Voter Eligibility)
		The Twenty-Sixth Amendment states that the right of any citizen who is eighteen years of age or older may not be abridged or denied by the United States or any state on account of age.
		According to the Court, states have the power under Article I, §2 of the Constitution to determine qualifications of their own voters in state and local elections except to the extent that other amendments to the Constitution have limited that power.
		Nevertheless, a state statute limiting the right to vote in primaries to those eighteen years of age and older did not violate the Twenty-Sixth Amendment.
	moritzlaw.osu.edu /electionlaw/ebook/part1/eligibility_rules05.html (1408 words)

	JOLICOEUR v. MIHALY (1971) 5 C3d 565
		On June 30, 1971, Ohio became the 38th state to ratify the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and it became law.
		Section 1 of the Twenty-sixth Amendment provides: "The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age." (Italics added.)
		To the state's claim that soldiers could "take over" a small town near the base, the court responded firmly: "`Fencing out' from the franchise a sector of the population because of the way they may vote is constitutionally impermissible." (Id, at p.
	online.ceb.com /calcases/C3/5C3d565.htm (6118 words)

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	FindLaw: Cases and Codes: U.S. Constitution
		Twenty-Third Amendment - Presidential Electors for the District of Columbia
		Twentieth Amendment - Commencement of the Terms of the President, Vice President and Members of Congress.
		Twenty-First Amendment - Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment
	www.findlaw.com /casecode/constitution (470 words)

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		His arrival in the United States for medical treatment spurred Iranian hooligans to seize the United States embassy in Teheran, taking its personnel hostage.
		1851: Sioux Indian chiefs sign a treaty with the United States government, ceding all Sioux lands in Iowa and some lands in Minnesota to the United States.
		They also contend, "That these United States are and of right ought to be free and independent states." Please see entry for 4 July 1776.
	www.jamesburnett.com /july.htm (4489 words)

	Close Up Foundation Civics Education Youth and Politics
		The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution granting 18-year-olds the right to vote was ratified on July 1, 1971.
		Twenty-sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified.
		Passage of the amendment grew out of many young people’s objection to the fact that, although they were old enough to fight and die in the Vietnam War, they could not use the ballot box to voice their opinions about international and domestic issues and political leaders.
	www.closeup.org /youth.htm (2716 words)

	4kids-01.htm
		Following the ratification of the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution giving 18-year-olds the right to vote in federal elections, all but a few states lowered their age of majority to 18, including California.
		Until fairly recently, the age of majority was set at the age of 21 in most states.
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	www.calbar.ca.gov /calbar/html_unclassified/4kids-01.htm (411 words)

	South Carolina SC - John Carl West - 1971-1975
		April 28, 1971 &; The South Carolina General Assembly ratified the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution
		March 28, 1973 – The General Assembly ratified an amendment to the state constitution that allowed restaurants to serve mixed drinks
		West was awarded the United States Army Commendation Medal for his military service
	sciway.net /hist/governors/west.html (258 words)

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	FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
		Section 1973bb directs the Attorney General "to institute in the name of the United States, such actions against States or political subdivisions, including actions for injunctive relief, as he may determine to be necessary to implement the twenty-sixth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States." 42 U.S.C. 1973bb(a)(1) (emphasis added).
		The effect of an injunction against allegedly discriminatory voting practices in one small county in Texas is of no earth-shaking importance, and the District Court may have been justified in concluding that the appellant registrar violated rights guaranteed to Prairie View students under the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
		The request for a three-judge court was predicated on the United States' claim for injunctive relief to remedy alleged violations of the Twenty-sixth Amendment.
	caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=439&invol=1105 (151 words)

	Sec. 1973bb. Enforcement of twenty-sixth amendment
		(a)(1) The Attorney General is directed to institute, in the name of the United States, such actions against States or political subdivisions, including actions for injunctive relief, as he may determine to be necessary to implement the twenty-sixth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
		(b) Whoever shall deny or attempt to deny any person of any right secured by the twenty-sixth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
		94-73 substituted provisions authorizing the Attorney General to institute proceedings to enforce twenty-sixth amendment, the jurisdiction of the district courts, and penalties for denial of rights secured by twenty-sixth amendment, for provisions relating to Congressional findings and prohibition of denial of right to vote on account of age.
	www.washingtonwatchdog.org /documents/usc/ttl42/ch20/subchI-C/sec1973bb.html (151 words)

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		But after the Twenty-sixth Amendment became part of the U.S. Constitution in the summer of 1971, both the Republican president who came to office promising to end the Vietnam War and the radical antiwar activist, who in 1968 preferred a pig to any of the human presidential candidates, urged newly-enfranchised 18-to-20-year-olds to register and vote.
		The amendment read, “The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of age.”
		Keyssar, Right to Vote, 280; Cultice, Youth’s Battle, 116-19; Close Up Foundation, 26th Amendment, 4, and Cretan, “Twenty-sixth Amendment,” 575.
	www.users.muohio.edu /brownc1/isu_71.htm (151 words)

	ELS - ERD - Law By Country - United States Substantive Law
		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.
		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.
		This amendment, being the second of twelve articles proposed by the First Congress on Sept. 25, 1789, was declared by the Archivist of the United States on May 18, 1992, to have been ratified by the legislatures of 40 of the 50 States.
	www.law.emory.edu /FEDERAL/usconst/amend.html (151 words)

	The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
		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.
		The 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.
		Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.
	www.usconstitution.net /const.html (5175 words)

	FindLaw: Cases and Codes: U.S. Constitution
		Twenty-Third Amendment - Presidential Electors for the District of Columbia
		Twenty-First Amendment - Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment
		Sixth Amendment - Rights of Accused in Criminal Prosecutions
	www.findlaw.com /casecode/constitution (470 words)

	Constitution of the United States. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
		The right to bear arms openly—adopted with reference to state militias—is guaranteed by the Second Amendment, while freedom from quartering soldiers in a house without the owner’s consent is guaranteed by the Third Amendment.
		The Thirteenth (1865), Fourteenth (1868), and Fifteenth (1870) are the Civil War and Reconstruction amendments; they abolish slavery, while guaranteeing civil rights and suffrage to U.S. citizens, including former slaves.
		The Sixth Amendment guarantees the right of speedy and public trial by an impartial jury in all criminal proceedings, while the Seventh Amendment guarantees the right of trial by jury in almost all common-law suits.
	www.bartleby.com /65/co/Constituus.html (470 words)

	Gun Shy: The Second Amendment.....
		But, after reviewing court decisions of different States interpreting state constitutional guarantees,[232] the Georgia Supreme Court held that the statute was unconstitutional under the Second Amendment to the federal Constitution.[233] More correctly, the Georgia court deemed itself to be vindicating the natural right of self-defense (and owning arms therefore) that the Amendment merely guaranteed.
		Though litigants pursuing Second Amendment claims have met with a decidedly unsympathetic federal judiciary in the lower courts,[152] and have largely been ignored by the United States Supreme Court,[153] it is clear that neither the plain text of the Amendment nor the Amendment's intent warrant the outcomes of any of these cases.
		Though the merits of the various academic positions have been discussed more extensively elsewhere,[73] a brief discussion is warranted in order to place the Second Amendment debate in the context of Professor Sager's thesis on underenforced constitutional norms.
	www.saf.org /LawReviews/Denning1.html (470 words)

	United States House of Representatives - Amendments to the Constitution
		Note 12: The first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States (and two others, one of which failed of ratification and the other which later became the 27th amendment) were proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the First Congress on September 25, 1789.
		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.
		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.
	www.house.gov /Constitution/Amend.html (470 words)

	ipedia.com: United States Constitution Article
		Amendments to Article One, unlike amendments to other articles, are restricted by the Constitution.
		Starting with the 18th amendment, each proposed amendment (except for the 19th Amendment and for the still-pending child labor amendment of 1924) has included text specifying that it shall not become part of the Constitution unless a sufficient number of states ratify it within a specific deadline.
		Amendments to the Constitution subsequent to the Bill of Rights cover a wide range of subjects.
	www.ipedia.com /united_states_constitution.html (470 words)

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	U.S.A. Constitution
		The original 13 States approved the Constitution of the United States and then the Bill of Rights Amendments.
		One Amendment reserved to the States and their Citizens all powers not specifically given to the Federal Government.
		Ten Amendments were promptly ratified which gave specific rights to the Citizens, and also further limited Federal powers.
	members.aol.com /USALaws/USA_usac.htm (470 words)

	Constitution of the United States. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The Preamble does not confer power, but its first words, “We the People of the United States,” describe the source of the powers conferred by the rest of the Constitution and have been used by the advocates of a strong union arguing against the proponents of states’ rights.
		The Eleventh Amendment (1798), which prohibits suits against any state by citizens of another state or foreigners (see sovereignty), was passed in reaction to the Supreme Court’s accepting jurisdiction of a suit against a state by a citizen of another state.
		Article 4 deals with the relations of the states (see conflict of laws), providing that “Full faith and credit shall be given in each State to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other State.” Section 2 prohibits any state from discriminating against citizens of other states, or in favor of its own.
	www.bartleby.com /65/co/Constituus.html (1911 words)

	Constitution of the United States: Browse
		Sixth Amendment--Rights of Accused in Criminal Prosecutions ( also see Supplements)
		Twenty-First Amendment--Repeal of Eighteenth Amendment ( also see Supplements)
		Eighth Amendment--Further Guarantees in Criminal Cases ( also see Supplements)
	www.gpoaccess.gov /constitution/browse.html (1911 words)

	Twenty-Sixth Amendment
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	Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution
		Amendment XXVI (the Twenty-sixth Amendment) of the United States Constitution states:
		A Companion to the United States Constitution and Its Amendments
		The right of citizens of the United who are eighteen years of age or to vote shall not be denied or by the United States or by any on account of age.
	www.freeglossary.com /United_States_Constitution/Amendment_Twenty-six (482 words)

	ELS - ERD - Law By Country - United States Substantive Law
		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.
		This amendment was proposed by the Eighty-sixth Congress on June 17, 1960 and was declared by the Administrator of General Services on Apr. 3, 1961, to have been ratified by 38 of the 50 States.
		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.
	www.law.emory.edu /FEDERAL/usconst/amend.html (482 words)

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