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.
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