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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.
Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Section 1. Any citizen of the United States can vote at age eighteen in any state. Before this amendment was ratified, many states had the voting age at twenty-one, but this amendment came to life mainly due to the slogan “old enough to fight, old enough to vote”, since eighteen-year-olds were being drafted to fight in the war but couldn’t vote due to their age.
Section 2. This section gives Congress the authority to pass laws to enforce this amendment, to make sure states comply with the new voting age, and possibly create new legislation in the future to preserve the voting age.
This change in the voting age is important not only because eighteen-year-olds can be drafted to fight in wars, but the imbalance of voting ages throughout states is too great, which isn't fair. Maybe some states had a high percentage of eighteen-year-olds compared to other states that voted in a certain political party, but because the voting age was twenty-one in this state, they cannot vote and therefore maybe a candidate from another party in an election can win that state because people that are allowed to vote favor them. If we are going to allow every state to participate in federal elections, then every state should have the same voting age so everything is leveled and nobody can benefit from such a law.