lower the drinking age to 18
Most children are very excited about turning 18 because it means adulthood, running off to college, and gaining freedom. When turning this age, you are allowed to join the military, get married and receive all the rights and responsibilities of an adult. However, having a wedding at this age means that during the celebration, one is not allowed to share a glass of Champagne during the toasts because the drinking age is 21. The United States is one of the few countries in the world to have such a high legal drinking age. Therefore the drinking age should be lowered to 18 because you are able to sign your life away and go to war, no states shall deprive you of your life, liberty, or property, and it is unfair that other countries minimum drinking age is 18 so why can’t we all be equal?
The legal drinking age in the United States was once 18, but that all changed when the 1984 law was passed. This law was called the National Minimum Drinking Age Act. If the states did not change the drinking age to 21 they would be forced to pay 5% of the state’s federal highway fund. If the states failed to change the drinking age to 21 they would lose a great amount of funding. An estimated loss of revenue for the states over a two-year period, if they failed to comply, ranged from $7.8 million for New Hampshire to $99.6 million for Texas.
In the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, it is stated that no state shall "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property." If the Constitution clearly declares that the States cannot discriminate in any way that will deny a person his civil rights, why is the government allowing states to create another second-class citizen in the millions of people aged 18 to 21 unable to drink like the rest of the adults in the country? This demographic has been demoted on notions based solely on medical research; what’s next – that people with low IQs can’t vote? Some may claim that the purpose of a higher drinking age
The legal drinking age in the United States was once 18, but that all changed when the 1984 law was passed. This law was called the National Minimum Drinking Age Act. If the states did not change the drinking age to 21 they would be forced to pay 5% of the state’s federal highway fund. If the states failed to change the drinking age to 21 they would lose a great amount of funding. An estimated loss of revenue for the states over a two-year period, if they failed to comply, ranged from $7.8 million for New Hampshire to $99.6 million for Texas.
In the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, it is stated that no state shall "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property." If the Constitution clearly declares that the States cannot discriminate in any way that will deny a person his civil rights, why is the government allowing states to create another second-class citizen in the millions of people aged 18 to 21 unable to drink like the rest of the adults in the country? This demographic has been demoted on notions based solely on medical research; what’s next – that people with low IQs can’t vote? Some may claim that the purpose of a higher drinking age