Question

Read this text from the Constitution:

AMENDMENT XXVI
Passed by Congress March 23, 1971. Ratified July 1, 1971.
Note: Amendment 14, section 2, of the Constitution was modified by section 1 of the 26th amendment.
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.
This amendment is the last of three voting rights amendments. Write a short essay explaining how this and the other voting rights amendments expanded voting rights in the United States.

Answer 1

Voting is a constituent political right for citizens of the United States, this amendment increases who can vote. People over the age of consent (18 years of age) can vote because of this amendment. Amendment 19 is the right that people of the female sex can vote, in short terms this allows women the right to vote. Lastly the 15th amendment grants people of different color and race to vote, these three amendments allows US citizens to vote freely, they expanded voting rights by allowing different people to take part in the voting process.

Answer 2

Voting rights represent one of the constituent political rights of citizens, but unlike the rest, regulation of these rights is the subject of whole chapters of legislative acts at the federal level and individual codes at the state level. Elections in the US political system represent extremely important, systematic and widely used institution. In general, in the United States, elections are held in accordance with the principles of universality and equality by secret ballot, which are universal for democratic states.

Voting rights are enshrined in Amendments 15 (prohibition of restrictions on voting rights), 19 (voting rights for women), 24 (cancellation of property electoral qualifications), 26 (age qualifications) of the US Constitution. In turn, the political rights and freedoms of citizens are enshrined in Amendment 1.

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