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Although the Twenty-sixth Amendment passed faster than any other constitutional amendment, about 17 states refused to pass measures to lower their minimum voting ages after Nixon signed the 1970 extension to the Voting Rights Act. [5] Opponents to extending the vote to youths questioned the maturity and responsibility of people at the age of 18.
Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution — provides that the right to vote may not be denied on account of age, by any state or by the United States, to any American citizen age 18 or older. Twenty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland — permitted the state to ratify the Nice Treaty.
This is a timeline of Vietnamese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Vietnam and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Vietnam. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Prehistory ...
The U.S. and North Vietnam issued a joint communique calling on all parties to observe the 28 January ceasefire agreement with effect from 15 June. [42] [30]: 50 19 June. The Case–Church Amendment approved by the U.S. Congress and signed into law prohibited further U.S. military activity in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia after 15 August 1973 ...
Virginia Board of Elections, under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. 1971: Adults aged 18 through 20 are granted the right to vote by the Twenty-sixth Amendment. This was enacted in response to Vietnam War protests, which argued that soldiers who were old enough to fight for their country should be granted the right to vote.
A November 1950 Central Intelligence Agency map of dissident activities in Indochina, published as part of the Pentagon Papers. The Pentagon Papers, officially titled Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1968.
The amendment was driven in part by the draft which conscripted men between the ages of 18 and 21. [3]: 375 1 July to 4 October. The ARVN 23rd Division conducted an unnamed operation in Quảng Ngãi Province resulting in 324 PAVN/VC killed. 3 July. Kissinger arrived in Saigon for meetings with senior U.S. and South Vietnamese commanders. [164]
The protests began on Monday morning, May 3 and ended on May 5. In all, more than 12,000 people were arrested, in what was the largest mass arrest in U.S. history. [1] Members of the Nixon administration would come to view the events as damaging because the government's response was perceived as violating citizens' civil rights. [2]