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Constitutional Revision Study Documents of the Constitutional Convention Commission, 1968
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SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS
AGE OF SUFFRAGE IN THE UNITED STATES1
A SUMMARY OF PUBLIC OPINION SURVEYS
ALL BASED ON RANDOM NATIONAL SAMPLES

 
Yes,
No,
No answer,

 
 
For,
Against,
Don't know,

 
 
Favor
Oppose
No opinion

Do you favor reducing the age at which
 
 
 
 
 
 

American citizens can vote from twenty-
 
 
 
 
 
 

one to eighteen? (GALLUP)
 
 
 
 
 
 

1939: May 18
17%
79%
4%

By age:
 
 
 
 
 
 

21-29 years
17
83
 
 

30-49 years
17
83
 
 

50 years and over
18
82
 
 

At the present time, American citizens can-
 
 
 
 
 
 

not vote until they become twenty-one
 
 
 
 
 
 

years of age. Would you favor changing
 
 
 
 
 
 

the law to allow men and women eighteen,
 
 
 
 
 
 

nineteen, and twenty years old to vote?
 
 
 
 
 
 

(GALLUP)
 
 
 
 
 
 

1943: January 15
39
52
9

By age:
 
 
 
 
 
 

21-29 years
41
53
9*

30-49 years
38
52
10

50 years and over
37
52
11

1943: April 9
42
52
6

Congress may be called upon to consider
 
 
 
 
 
 

a constitutional amendment to allow per-
 
 
 
 
 
 

sons eighteen, nineteen, and twenty years
 
 
 
 
 
 

old to vote in elections. Would you like
 
 
 
 
 
 

to have your Congresman vote for or
 
 
 
 
 
 

against this proposal? (GALLUP)
 
 
 
 
 
 

1943: August 17
52
42
6

1 Reproduced by the Legislative Reference Service, Library of Congress, with the permission
of Hazel Erskine, Polls Editor, public opinion quarterly.
*Does not add to 100%. Taken from H. cantril, public opinion 1935-1946 (1951).
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