Historical Event 26 Amendment

The historical event I am doing is The Twenty-sixth Amendment (Amendment XXVI) to the United States constitution standardizing voting age to 18. It was adopted in response to student activism against the Vietnam War and to partially overrule the Supreme Court's decision in Oregon v. Mitchell. It was adopted on July 1, 1971. The first part is 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. The second part is the Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. In his 1954 State of the Union Address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower became the first President to publicly state his support for prohibiting age based denials of suffrage for those 18 and older. A little over 16 years later, on June 22, 1970, President Nixon signed a law which required the voting age to be 18 in all federal, state and local elections In Oregon v. Mitchell, 400 U.S. 112 (1970), in which the Supreme Court declared the parts of the law which required states to register 18-year-olds for state and local elections to be unconstitutional. By this time, four states had a minimum voting age below 21. The Congress and the state legislatures felt increasing pressure to pass the Constitutional amendment because of the Vietnam War, in which many young men who were ineligible to vote were conscripted to fight in the war. "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote," was a common slogan used by proponents of lowering the voting age that traced its roots back to World War II, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt lowered the military draft age to eighteen. The idea was that people who were old enough to be drafted into the military should have a say in the selection of the civilian government that determines when and how military force is used. On March 10, 1971, the Senate voted 94-0 in favor of proposing a Constitutional amendment to guarantee that the voting age couldn't be higher than 18. On March 23, 1971, the House of Representatives voted 401-19 in favor of the proposed amendment. Within months the resolution was ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures, faster than any other amendment. The Twenty sixth Amendment was formally certified by the Administrator of General Services on July 7, 1971.
I think this event is very important. It’s a new amendment being activated, a pretty important one too lowering the voting age to eighteen. It was adopted in response to student activism against the Vietnam War. It was ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures, faster than any other amendment.