Minimum Legal Drinking Age On July 17 of 1984 President Ronald Reagan signed to make the National Minimum Drinking Age Act a law. This law required all states to have a minimum drinking age of 21, if a state did not comply with this law they could face up to a 10% cut in funding for their federal highways (Tietjen). Since this act became a law there has been two distinct sides arguing whether they agree with the minimum drinking age, or whether they disagree. One side believes having a minimum drinking
The Drinking Age Should Be Lowered Alcohol! Should the legal drinking age be lowered? The answer to the question is yes, it should. The drinking age limit should be lowered because, in the eyes of the law, a person is seen as an adult at the age of eighteen, in other countries the lower drinking age is successful, and in college, the consumption among students increased after the limit was raised to twenty-one. The law recognizes citizens at the age of eighteen as legal adults: “adults should have
pondered in the United States is why the legal drinking age is twenty-one. The United States people don’t understand why eighteen year old can die fighting for their country, but cannot legally drink until the age of twenty-one. If you have ever talked to someone who was born in the 1970s or earlier, they might have told you that they could legally drink under the age of twenty-one. This is true because each state is responsible for setting their own minimum legal drinking age; not the federal government
The drinking age should be lowered Alcohol! Should the legal drinking age be lowered? The answer to the question is yes, it should and here is why.The drinking age limit should be lowered because in the eyes of the law a person is seen as an adult at the age of eighteen, in other countries the lower drinking age works, and in college the drinking among students increased after the limit was raised to twenty one. When a person reaches the age of eighteen they are seen as a legal adult: “adults should
Alcohol! Should the legal drinking age be lowered? The answer to the question is yes it should and here is why.The drinking age limit should be lowered because in the eyes of the law a person is seen as an adult at the age of eighteen, in other countries the lower drinking age works, and in college the drinking among students increased after the limit was raised to twenty one. When a person reaches the age of eighteen they are seen as a legal adult: “adults should have the right to make their own
Why Lowering the Drinking Age is a Good Idea? Lowering the drinking age to 18 in the United States has been a source of controversy in recent years. It has been a controversial topic because many people disagree, while many agree with the topic. For example, the people who disagree and are against lowering the drinking age to 18 believe we should not lower the drinking age because 18 year old individuals are not responsible enough to drink alcohol. While, the people who agree we should lower the
what age should be considered the proper age to drink alcohol has been intensely debated. Since the 1980s, the nationwide legal drinking age has been 21 and older for the United States. However, this age limit imposed on the consumption of alcohol was controversial then, and it continues to be so today. In 2008, John McCardell, leader of Choose Responsibility and former president of Middlebury College, joined a campaign known as the Amethyst Initiative, which proposed lowering the drinking age to
attention is on the topic of whether or not the drinking age in the United States should be lowered from 21 to 18. Many people have debated about this topic for several years, and there are several different opinions on this topic. Some people think it is dangerous to lower the drinking age; some people support it. Some children think it is stupid to lower the drinking age; some children support it. However, I strongly believe that the legal drinking age should be lowered from 21 to 18 for several
Andrew Fey Caldwell Eng1013 30 September 2015 Lowering the Legal Drinking Age As teenagers are given the right to drive, but not without practice before hand so why do people have to wait to 21 to drink alcohol in most states without leaning proper ways to drink with moderation? There has been many cases in the world where many countries has set their drinking ages for beer and wine at 18 and in some cases at 16 year old and set the hard liquor at 21 or 18 years old. Here in the United States
In the United States of America, the National Government requires the states to enforce a legal drinking age of twenty-one. Where as the world average drinking age is eighteen, and in some Countries it is even lower where it is possible to get a beer at sixteen years of age. Taking that into consideration, there is a great deal of controversy in the United States on what the legal age should be to purchase and consume an alcoholic beverage. The largest issue being that you are considered to be an