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The contemporary international movement to lower the eligible voting age to below 18 years and grant the vote to youth (for example, persons aged 16 and 17 or perhaps even to persons as young as 14) is often perceived to be a novel struggle for a human right. However, history teaches that this presumption is incorrect. The issue of ‘youth’ voting rights was a matter given important consideration in the earliest societies which enjoyed any form of representative government.
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Grover, S.C. (2011). Examples of Contextual Factors in the Youth Struggle for the Vote. In: Young People’s Human Rights and The Politics of Voting Age. Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8963-2_2
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