Rebuttal. Should Teens Be Allowed To Vote - Vinh.

After reading Vinh's opening statement, I feel that was not able to carefully grasp the statement he was trying to make since it was only three sentences long. He points out that the 26th Amendment was changed to make it so that instead of the voting age stay at twenty one, it changed to eighteen. He gives one source which does not look like a fairly well thought out resource because of the many adds and other links connected to it. The way I see it is that this website is a short summary of the changing of the Amendment but does not give detailed information about it. 

Vinh states, Voting age has always been a problem. In 1971, congress pass down the 26th amendment which change the voting age from 21 to 18 (Here). Before that, voting age minimum was 21, but why was the 26th amendment proposed to the constitution and

As you can see, he did not even complete his last sentence. Also his commentary has nothing to do with his argument since he is against having the voting age be lowered. Yet in his statement, he supports the age change for voting 3 years lower, he may not realize that eighteen is also considered a teenager.  


If Vinh had finished his argument I bet that it would be very well thought out and followed up by good supporting details, but since he did not finsh, I feel that his argument is not very strong. I talked to Vinh in class and he said that he would finish his debate and change it yet I have not seen a change in it since this morning. 


I feel that teens should be allowed to vote so that they can help enlighten the minds of other adults that have been influenced by the stress of politics. Since teens have fresh minds and are well educated, we should be able to change the world. Many great political figures express how important it is to let children speak their minds but if they go against their stand and keep us from voting then they are contradicting what they are saying. I believe that there should be at least some way in which teenagers could tell the world how they feel. To do so, we teenagers must stick together and come up with very intelligent and well thought out political input.