Give Children the Vote
Give Children the Vote Throughout history, the right to vote has been extended to landowning men, the poor, minorities, women, and young adults. The one major group still denied suffrage is the third…
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Give Children the Vote
Throughout history, the right to vote has been extended to landowning men, the poor, minorities, women, and young adults. The one major group still denied suffrage is the third of humanity who are under 18 years of age. In each case, the meaning of democracy itself has been transformed.
And these have lead to a growing global movement in favor of children voting.This book argues that it is time to give children the vote. However, children are becoming increasingly active in political movements for climate regulation, labor rights, gun control, transexual identity, and racial justice. Using political theory and drawing on childhood studies, it shows why suffrage cannot legitimately be limited according to age, as well as why truly universal voting is beneficial to all and can help save today's crumbling democratic norms.
It carefully responds to a wide range of objections