Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service.
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.
I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance, in the media, in politics, in democracy.
Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that.
I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.
I don't see how a young American can vote for, well, can vote for a Democrat.
In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
I would not vote to raise the retirement age to 70 because there are just too many Americans that work hard all their lives and just simply physically couldn't work until they are 70.
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