Jonathan Becker, vice president for academic affairs and director of the Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College, together with constitutional rights litigator Yael Bromberg, published an article in Forbes. Becker and Bromberg, who are coeditors of the book
Youth Voting Rights: Civil Rights, the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, and the Fight for American Democracy on College Campuses, discuss the importance of youth political participation, and explore case studies of college communities which helped establish legal voting rights precedent. “As we approach the 250th anniversary of the birth of the nation, every day proves that we are in the midst of a constitutional crisis to define the nation’s identity,” write Becker and Bromberg. “With a new shadow of entrenchment enveloping the nation, it serves to recall the civic ethos and action which overcame prior anti-democratic impulses.”
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Post Date: 02-26-2026
