The Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the US Constitution changed the legal voting age in the United States from twenty-one to eighteen. The reason for this was the military draft in WWII and Vietnam that...
Category - The Constitutional Amendments
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment: The Constitutional Amendments
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment is the amendment that tells how the office of the President of the United States is to be handled if the President dies or is disabled while in office, and also gives the...
The Twenty-Fourth Amendment: The Constitutional Amendments
The Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution made the use of the poll tax as a requirement to register to vote unconstitutional. After the Civil War, many of the southern states enacted poll...