At age eighteen the government feels that you are responsible enough to vote, serv

If young adults are given the privilege to drink legally then it will lose its thrill and there will be less binge drinking. Right now when minors have the opportunity to drink, they do it irresponsibly and often recklessly because it is seen as an enticing "forbidden fruit," a "badge of rebellion against authority" and a symbol of "adulthood." This is readily seen among our nation's university students. Those under twenty-one are more like to be "binge" drinkers, consuming more than five drinks a night at least once a week. For example, 22% of all students under twenty-one are heavy drinkers compared to 18% of students over twenty-one years of age. Among drinkers only, 32% of under age are heavy drinkers compared to 24% of legal age. This is all because the thrill of breaking the law is gone when they turn twenty-one.

The Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution states, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved

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