The twenty sixth amendment of the United States Constitution lowered the voting age from twenty one to eighteen. The debate to lowering the voting age began during world War II and intensified in the Vientam War. Young men were being denied the option to vote but were being enlisted to fight for our country. In the Oregon v. Mitchel case in 1970, the divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Congress had the right to change the age regulations in federal elections. Franklin D. Roosevelt was president during World War II. Franklin D. Roosevelt lowered the minimum age for the military draft to eighteen. A common slogan for youth voting rights movements was "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote". In 1943 Georgia became the first state to lower
