Proposed Constitutional Amendments (A Series)

Amendment XXVIII

Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, shall be eligible to vote upon reaching eighteen years of age, excepting only those persons who have been duly found to be incompetent to manage their own affairs in a final court proceeding wherein the respondent shall have been afforded all rights of due process.

Section 2: The right of citizens of the United States to cast a free, fair, secret, and secure vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State.

Section 3: The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.