[EL] Give Children the Vote by John Wall

[Robin Chen]

Here's a forthcoming book by John Wall, *Give Children the Vote*

Throughout history, the right to vote has been extended to landowning men,
> the poor, minorities, women, and young adults. In each case, the meaning of
> democracy itself has been transformed. The one major group still denied
> suffrage is the third of humanity who are under 18 years of age. However,
> children are becoming increasingly active in political movements for
> climate regulation, labor rights, gun control, transexual identity, and
> racial justice. And these have led to a growing global movement to
> eliminate minimum ages of enfranchisement.


> This book argues that it is time to give children the vote. Using
> political theory and drawing on childhood studies, it shows why suffrage
> cannot legitimately be limited according to age, as well as why truly
> universal voting is beneficial to all and can help save today's crumbling
> democratic norms. It carefully responds to a wide range of objections
> concerning competence, knowledge, adult rights, power relations, harms to
> children, and much more. And it develops a detailed childist theory of
> voting based on holding elected representatives maximally responsive to the
> people's different lived experiences. The book also introduces the concept
> of proxy-claim voting, wherein parents or guardians exercise proxy votes
> for non-competent persons, both child and adult, until whatever time those
> persons wish to claim or reclaim the exercise of their vote for themselves.
> Ultimately, the book maps out a new vision of democratic voting that, by
> equally empowering children, is at last genuinely democratic.


https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/give-children-the-vote-9781350196261/

Robin
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