By ABby Not Lowering Drinking Age “Approximately 92% of U.S. adults who drink excessively report binge drinking in the past 30 days (Fact Sheets).” The local government should not lower the drinking age to 18 because lowing this effect the frontal lobes development‚ there would be more ‘binge drinking’‚ and there would be more alcohol-associated violent behavior. But if the local government were to lower the drinking age‚ there would be less of a thrill. According Christian Moyer research‚ “"We
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passed‚ it gave 18-year-olds the right to vote. Today‚ nearly twenty-five years later‚ the question has become "should 16-year-olds be allowed to vote?" It was not difficult at all to sit down and come up with pretty good reasons on why we do not see the problem with lowering the voting age. I mean why not? Teens start working at around the age of 15‚ which means they pay taxes‚ right? At the age of 16‚ a teen is able to drop out of school or become emancipated so shouldn’t they be eligible to vote? A
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Should the Voting Age be Increased or Decreased? The right to vote is one of the most salient human rights. It gives everyone a chance to voice their opinion on how they think that we should be governed. It allows the government to listen to the people and get rid of bad rulers. With this being said‚ I think that teens younger than 18 should be able to vote. Many may think this is inapt‚ and condemn me for it‚ but it only makes sense. Teens are growing up‚ and will be the light in the world for
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drinking age to eighteen‚ mistake or a way to stop larger problems? I have found a website that‚ if you are for lowering the drinking‚ will clear a lot of these kinds of questions up. Choose Responsibility is a non-profit organization founded by President Emeritus John M. McCardell Jr. of Middlebury College‚ when McCardell was approached by the Robertson Foundation‚ a foundation interested in investigating the consequences of the 21 year-old drinking age. The Effects of the 21 Year-Old Drinking Age: A
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Rough draft United States believes that at the age of 18 you are considered an adult and are responsible for your own actions. At the age of 18 you can move out of your parents homes‚ I and every other girl in this room can go have an abortion‚ at the age of 18 you can sign up for the military and legally kill people and even put your own life at risk to protect our country‚ we can vote on who we want the next president of our country to be‚ you can go to a car dealer ship and purchase a car
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It will significantly diminish the thrill of breaking the law to consume alcohol‚ and it will not promote general disrespect and disobedience in other aspects of the law. That being said‚ it is important that we consider the benefits of lowering the age that it will be legal for an individual
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in? I certainly do not. The only practice teenagers have in anything voting wise is student government. Then again we must remember the homeschooled students. Most eighteen year olds are incapable of making life changing decisions‚ therefore the legal voting age should be changed to twenty-five. The legal voting age should be changed to twenty-five but‚ what exactly is so significant about that age. Well‚ twenty-five is the age when the adolescent brain has fully developed. Several car rental businesses
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of whether or not the voting age of 18 should be lowered or maintained‚ in my opinion‚ it should be maintained. To begin my position on the issue I will start by referencing the first passage‚ Keeping the Voting Age at 18. In this passage it argues that lowering the voting age to 16 will decrease the percentage of participation. I personally find that to be a good reason because around the age of 16 a person is typically still in school and not too worried about voting. The stereotypical teenager
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affect our entire country? 16 year olds should not be able to make these decisions for the world because of many reasons. The voting age should not be lowered to age 16. There are three main arguments that support this opinion. First‚ teens at the age of 16 can act immature. Most‚ 16 year olds can make immature choices so therefore should not have the right to vote. If the voting age is lowered to age 16 random people such as chavs will be voting (a young lower class person who displays brash behavior)
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VOTING AT 16? Neglected for a generation‚ a troublesome political question is back : when should young people be able to vote for candidates in elections? Conservative peer Lord Lucas of Crudwell and Dingwall recently tabled a Private Members Bill in the Lords. It proposed a voting age of 16. And this week‚ for the first time‚ a national coalition has been launched at the Houses of Parliament. The Votes at 16 Campaign is backed by a wide range of groups – from the National Black Youth Forum and
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