Editing 1970s (section)

====Youth suffrage====
{{Main|Youth suffrage}}
The [[Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution]] was ratified on July 1, 1971, lowering the voting age for all federal and state elections from 21 years to 18 years. The primary impetus for this change was the fact that young men were being drafted to fight in the [[Vietnam War]] before they were old enough to vote.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Brown |first1=Clyde |last2=Pluta Brown |first2=Gayle K. |title=Iowa University Towns and the Twenty-sixth Amendment: The First Test of the Newly Enfranchised Student Vote in 1971 |journal=The Annals of Iowa |date=Fall 2009 |volume=68 |issue=4 |page=398 |doi=10.17077/0003-4827.1380 |url=https://pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/annals-of-iowa/article/id/6038/download/pdf/ |access-date=20 July 2022|doi-access=free }}</ref>