Question

How did the 26th Amendment expand voting rights?

Answer 1

It allowed voting to people 18 years or older. The Twenty-sixth Amendment (Amendment XXVI) to the United States Constitution bars the states and the federal government from setting a voting age higher than eighteen. It was adopted in response to student activism against the Vietnam War. It was adopted on July 1, 1971.

Answer 2

The 26th amendment allowed younger people to vote. More people now had the right to vote. The age was 21, but has been lowered to 18. The youth felt that if they could enter the military and fight in war, then they should be able to vote.

"Old enough to fight, old enough to vote," became a common slogan. President Nixon favored the 18-year-old voting rights, and thus the 26th amendment came to be.

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