Should The United States Have The Right To Vote

In the United States, we have the privilege to vote. This privilege was given to us through the constitution and its amendments. Today, every citizen of the United States has the right to vote. When the Declaration of Independence was signed, the right to vote was limited exclusively for white protestant men who owned property. In 1792, New Hampshire was the first state that discarded the property requirement to vote. Maryland became the last state to eliminate a religious restriction on voting. This allowed almost every white man to have the right to vote. In the years of 1869 and 1870, the fifteenth Amendment was passed giving all men the right to vote, no matter their race or color. The years 1919 to 1920 were big years for women. The Nineteenth Amendment was passed by congress, giving all citizens the right to vote no matter their gender. Then in 1971, the Twenty-Sixth Amendment enforced the national voting age of eighteen and older.
Voting in a community does not only affect the person voting but instead it affects all of the people in the community as well. Elected officials can find out who voted and the number of votes that they get from a certain community. They will then campaign more in the areas that voted the most and pay less attention to the areas that did not participate as much in voting. We should all exercise our right to vote. We should not make any excuses. We are given a voice in our government and we should use it. Voting is very important to the future of the United States, so we are obligated to vote for who we think is the best candidate for that future. Although voting is not a requirement, it should definitely be a