Opinion | The Case for an Older Voting Age With Conditions

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Opinion | The Case for an Older Voting Age With Conditions
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From WSJopinion: Our lost civic pride won’t reappear automatically. Reviving it will require boldness, writes VivekGRamaswamy.

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America is losing its national pride. Only 23% of adults under 30 say patriotism is very important to them, and 23% of Americans under 25 vote. Here’s a counterintuitive solution: Make voting harder. I urge Congress to propose a constitutional amendment that would require young Americans to earn the right to vote by fulfilling a civic-duty requirement. The amendment would raise the voting age to 25 except for young adults who either fulfill a service requirement—at least six months in the U.S. military or a first-responder role—or pass the civics test administered to naturalizing immigrants.

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