Debate: Lowering the voting age to 16 - Debatepedia.

If the voting age is lowered to 16, then politics could become a GCSE course, meaning they will be fully prepared at an early date, ready for an election if they are 16 for example. No because. They have really only just got out to the world and to their 'responsible stage'. They need some time to know how its run now and if it should be different or be changed. They can't just vote or it.

They should be able to vote. In America there’s always a lot of talk about how 16 years olds are too young and immature to vote. “Since the national voting age was lowered to 18 in 1971, the voting rate among 18-to-24 years old has dropped fairly steadily.

Should the UK voting age be reduced to 16? Should it only be reduced when matters that concern minors are under discussion? Associate Professor Matthew Clayton from the Department of Politics and International Studies, Professor Dennis Leech from the Department of Economics and Dr Alex Smith from the Department of Sociology offer their perspectives.

The voting age in Ireland has once again been up for discussion but is it really necessary to consider reducing it from 18 to 16? Those in favour of this change have expressed the view that those.

I started work at 16 and paid tax and remember feeling frustrated and joined a campaign to lower the voting age 'taxation without representation'. The world has changed however with my own children working part time from 16 but not full time tax payers until their early 20s until they left uni. Certainly they had a viewpoint and should be able to vote before they lose that aspirational view.

Kathmandu, November 25. Almost all members of State Affairs Committee of the Parliament today said the voting age of citizens should be lowered from 18 to 16.

A debate has surfaced regarding the legal voting ages in Australia as to whether the voting age should be lowered to the age of 16. In response to this issue, Melissa Young, a 17-year-old girl, contends that the voting age should be lowered to 16 in her post on the website, youngpeopleunite. com. She conveys her message in an easy-going, colloquial manner but simultaneously presents her.

The 26th Amendment to the US Constitution, which lowered the voting age to 18, was passed because of the clear double standard of making 18-year-olds fight for their country when they didn’t have a political voice. The idea that anyone directly affected by political decisions should have a right to voice their opinions on such decisions should not be limited to only military conscription.

In 1971, the U.S. already lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 and the latter is also the age citizens in most countries vote. However, there are other countries in Europe where people as young as 16 are legal to vote. Today, the debate of lowering the voting age in the country from 18 to 16 has surfaced. As expected, this has become a divisive issue with supporters and critics being for and.

Should the voting age be lowered to 16 across the United States? By: Jennifer Lee Kovaleski Posted at 7:18 PM, Jul 25, 2018. and last updated 2018-07-25 21:41:13-04. Editor's Note: Denver7 360.

This essay argues out whether the voting age should be lowered to thirteen. The age thirteen was picked because it is a time when a child should start thinking more about becoming an adult, and it is a time in a person’s life when the Jewish faith says a child becomes an adult. Argument People that young are too easy to manipulate. On the whole, people are easy to manipulate, especially when.

There is now a growing sentiment that the voting age in the UK should be lowered again, to 16 years old. This has become the consensus position of several major political parties, including Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party. Indeed, 16 and 17 year olds will even be entitled to vote in the upcoming referendum on Scottish independence, a change that has predictably.