How do you "restrict voting rights" of someone who does not have those same rights because they are not yet of age as an adult and the exercise of that right has been determined as a purely adult function?
How do you "restrict voting rights" of someone who does not have those same rights because they are not yet of age as an adult and the exercise of that right has been determined as a purely adult function?
Because rights are given to all citizens, and then are restricted from there
Try again. Voting rights were never given to children.
Try again. Voting rights were never given to children.
You are right. They are given to citizens of which children are sizable population and then are restricted.
Please cite in the US Constitution where voting rights were ever given to children and then restricted.
You are simply talking nonsense. Voting is now and always has been in this nation an adult right. Show me in the Constitution where it says otherwise.
tell you what, you two coordinate your line of reasoning here and come up with some better than what you have offered. I will be back in two hours time to see what you found.
It does not say the rights of adults. It says the rights of citizens of which children are a sizable population. You obviously need to go back and read your constitution.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.
You could not be more wrong. It is indeed a political exercise. Very very much so. This scheme has been floated for a few years now starting in very right wing conservative circles and is now being repeated and picking up some steam. This is very much setting the stage for such efforts in the near future. I have not one doubt about that at all.
oh yeah, i almost forgot. the black helicopters and secret plans to enact our own Final Solution
We have no age limit on rights. It isn't the right to free speech after age 7. The second amendment doesn't have an age limit though we have placed restrictions on it. I might add that the amendment limiting the age of voting, the 26th, says It does not say the rights of adults. It says the rights of citizens of which children are a sizable population. You obviously need to go back and read your constitution.
You do realize that the 26th Amendment LOWERED the voting age from 21 and did not RAISE the voting age from one of childhood don't you? The 26th Amendment expanded the franchise by lowering the accepted age of adulthood for this purpose. It works against you not for you.
I do not know what planet you live on or what country on that planet you live on. I have no idea where you get your information from. And I clearly have no idea where your belief system comes from because you have failed to cite any source with any actual language.
Citizens who are adults have the right to vote.
Citizens who are not adults have never had the right to vote in this country so they never have had those "rights" restricted.
You cite the 26 the Amendment. You do realize that the 26th Amendment LOWERED the voting age from 21 and did not RAISE the voting age from one of childhood don't you? The 26th Amendment expanded the franchise by lowering the accepted age of adulthood for this purpose. It works against you not for you.
I must say that i have never come up against someone in an otherwise intelligent discussion who clung to an ideological fiction born from their own mind in the face of all common sense and fact as you are doing here. Scratch that .... I did on another site dedicated to the works of an author and come to think of it that poster had much the same name you did except for a couple of letters in the last three. This is eerie.
Cop out. I clearly showed that there is no such things a "rights of adults." The language clearly only states rights of citizens of which children are considered citizens. You simply do not understand what you are trying to talk about.
Typically citizens become eligible to vote after reaching the age of legal adulthood.
Does mockery negate that we are seeing this idea actually proposed?
Does mockery negate that this is a blatant scheme to disenfranchise tens of millions?
Does mockery negate the desire to classify some citizens as less worth of the right to vote than others?
Does mockery negate the desire to categorize some citizens as having to earn the rights that have been simply a matter of course for most of our history?
I will use only little words for you to make it easy.
Can you show in the Constitution (sorry its a bit one) where children can vote in elections?
I will use only little words for you to make it easy.
Can you show in the Constitution (sorry its a bit one) where children can vote in elections?
Can you show in the Constitution where children are not citizens?
I will use only little words for you to make it easy.
Can you show in the Constitution (sorry its a bit one) where children can vote in elections?
can you show me where all adults irrespective of tax status can?
if you wanna live in a Robert Heinlein sci-fi universe - this ain't it.
Absolutely.
Amendment 24
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Absolutely.
Amendment 24
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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