However, state legislatures have the authority and prerogative, rooted in the Tenth Amendment, to set and adjust the age of majority as they see fit “for the public good”… [More]
This:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
does not override this:
This Constitution…shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
It’s so weird– young people in Marx for Our Lives demanding that the government curtail their rights because they’re not mature and responsible enough to claim them.
[Via Antigone]
If you read that amendment carefully (which I never bothered to do until years later) you will notice that it says nothing about adulthood or age of majority. It says age of voting, full stop. Almost immediately, the feds began playing games to “reclaim to 21” other adult rights such as the purchase of alcohol and firearms. It’s clear in retrospect that this amendment was nothing but a prototype Democrat ploy to get the one thing they wanted — more socialist voters — and they just lied about the whole “age of majority” thing. There’s also no mention of a previous age of majority in the original constitutional text, either.
And yet there are many laws enacted by the various states that infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms.