"Section 1. 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.
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
This amendment lowered the voting age to 18. During the Vietnam war, soldiers would go off to war at the age of 17 or 18 and return before they were 21. They were not allowed to vote in the elections because they were not yet of age, even though they had fought and watched their fellow soldiers die for this country. This amendment was essentially a tribute to those Vietnam vets.
The below video is a Vietnam war protest. Though some Vietnam vets were not old enough to vote, they played their part in politics by joining anti war protests.
As this amendment was a government tribute to the Vietnam vets, this next video is a tribute to them as well.
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