Prompt Do you think that voting age of 18 is appropriate? If you were to change it, would you make it higher or lower and why? Justify your answer by using examples.

I would propose lowering the voting age to 16. I believe that a voting age of 18 is not appropriate to the type of society that we have nowadays. In modern American society, people who are 16 and 17 are often quite mature and engaged in public life. They follow the news and are well-informed. Moreover,  many teenagers are affected by many of the subjects that are relevant during an election, such as climate change or gun control. An example of this would be that of environmental activist Greta Thurnberg, or Natalie Barden, who became a gun control activist after losing her brother at the Sandy Hook shooting.

the nationalists wanted a strong central government so the new country wouldn't fall apart.

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in mcculloch v. maryland (1819) the supreme court ruled that congress had implied powers under the necessary and proper clause of article i, section 8 of the constitution to create the second bank of the united states and that the state of maryland lacked the power to tax the bank.

gibbons v. ogden, (1824), was a landmark decision in which the supreme court of the united states held that the power to regulate interstate commerce, granted to congress by the commerce clause of the united states constitution, encompassed the power to regulate navigation.