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The Loch Ness Monster, Haggis, And A Lower Voting Age: What American Can Learn From Scotland, Joshua A. Douglas
The Loch Ness Monster, Haggis, And A Lower Voting Age: What American Can Learn From Scotland, Joshua A. Douglas
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This Article, prepared for an American University Law Review
symposium, explores what the United States can learn from Scotland's experience
in lowering the voting age to sixteen. The minimum voting age in American
elections seems firmly entrenched at eighteen, based in part on the Twenty-Sixth
Amendment, which prohibits states from denying the right to vote to anyone aged
eighteen or older. Yet the conversation about lowering the voting age to sixteen,
at least for local elections, has gained steam in recent years. The debate in
America, however, is nascent compared to the progress in Scotland, which
lowered the voting age …