
Daniel Weinstock - Should Adolescents Vote?
The Curious Task
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The Importance of Age Limits in Elections
I am a gradualist in the sense that if you look at different domains of human activity, it's not the case that there's one age threshold that fits for all of them. I actually have to admit I'm not sure if there's a restriction on probably not parliamentary system. But once we decide that my arguments are good, you know, which I hope we'll over time carry the day, then I think that there's a principle of political equality that really militates for just having an entire vote. You know, John Stuart Mill argued for the franchise franchise well before other more enlightened and progressive thinkers did. He had this view that there ought to be everybody ought to vote, but
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