Ratification Document for the 26th amendment from Illinois
In 1954 and 1968 Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lyndon B. Johnson, respectively, championed the cause of an amendment to the Constitution lowering the voting age...
The 19th Amendment
This Congressional resolution, which proposed extending the right to vote to women, became the 19th Amendment to the Constitution when Tennessee became the 36th state...
Voting for war
One day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed a Joint Session of Congress, pronounced December 7 “a day of infamy,” and...
What he wanted to say . . .
These notes were written by President Nixon expressing his thoughts on the 26th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The speech was given by the...