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    The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 (23 U.S.C. § 158) was passed by the United States Congress and was later signed into law by President Ronald...
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    The legal drinking age is the minimum age at which a person can legally consume alcoholic beverages. The minimum age alcohol can be legally consumed can...
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    purchase age, while Guam raised its purchase age to 21 in July 2010. Contrary to popular belief, since the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, not all...
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  • highest drinking age worldwide at 21 (known as the Minimum Legal Drinking Age of 21, or MLDA-21). In 1984, the United States Congress passed the National Minimum...
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    Although the minimum legal age to purchase alcohol is 21 in all U.S. states and most territories (see National Minimum Drinking Age Act), the legal details...
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  • South Dakota v. Dole (category Legal drinking age)
    funds from states whose legal drinking age did not conform to federal policy. The dissent argued that the minimum drinking age condition for states to receive...
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    1933, the minimum drinking age in Massachusetts was set at age 17. Sometime between this date and April 13, 1973, the Massachusetts drinking age was raised...
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    example is the nationwide legal drinking age of 21, enacted by each state, brought about by the National Minimum Drinking Age Act. Although some objected that...
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  • Amethyst Initiative (category Legal drinking age)
    legal drinking age, particularly the minimum age of 21. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 requires all US states to raise their minimum age for...
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    "Age of Majority Act 1971". The Commissioner of Law Revision, Malaysia. 22 April 1971. Retrieved 23 April 2018. "National law and policies on minimum ages...
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    On July 17, 1984, the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was enacted. The Act requires all states to either set their minimum age to purchase alcoholic...
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  • Tobacco 21 (category Minimum ages)
    NATIONAL MINIMUM DRINKING AGE ACT OF 1984" (PDF), Sam Houston State University Males, Mike (2008). "Should California Reconsider Its Legal Drinking Age...
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    teenagers drinking alcohol in Germany is one of the highest in both Europe and the world. Due to the low taxation on alcohol, low drinking age and lax regulations...
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    necessarily for drinking) has been 21 years in every state since shortly after the passage of the National Minimum Drinking Age Act in 1984, which tied...
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    between the ages of 18 and 20 to obtain one from a private dealer if state law permits.) As of July 1984, the National Minimum Drinking Age Act mandated...
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  • The legal drinking age in India and the laws which regulate the sale and consumption of alcohol vary significantly from state to state. In India, consumption...
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    The minimum driving age is the minimum age at which a person may obtain a driver's license to lawfully drive a motor vehicle on public roads. That age is...
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    Alcohol laws of New York (category Food and drink in New York (state))
    to the National Minimum Drinking Age Act in 1984, which reduced by up to 10% the federal highway funding of any state that did not have a minimum purchasing...
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    Prevention and Tobacco Control Act Gambling age Legal drinking age – worldwide view of drinking ages Legal drinking age controversy in the United States...
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    Frank Lautenberg (category Burials at Arlington National Cemetery)
    Lautenberg pushed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, which was passed in 1984. The same year, he spoke at the Democratic National Convention, though...
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  • Kingdom Age of Consent Act, 1891 French petition against age of consent laws Youth Youth suffrage Youth rights Legal age Legal drinking age Age of majority...
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    governments, but the federal National Minimum Drinking Age Act penalizes states for not following a national drinking age. Tobacco is also regulated by...
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    Alcohol laws of Kansas (category Food and drink in Kansas)
    the National Minimum Drinking Age Act in 1984, which reduced by 10% the federal highway funding of any state which did not have a minimum drinking age of...
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  • greatest success with the enacting of a 1984 federal law, the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, that introduced a federal penalty (a 5%—later raised to 10%—loss...
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    Alcohol laws of Missouri (category Food and drink in Missouri)
    Missouri's drinking age has been 21 since 1945. That is, Missouri law prohibits minors from possessing or purchasing alcohol. Thus, when the National Minimum Drinking...
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    regarding age minimums including, but not limited to, the age of majority, age of criminal responsibility, voting age, drinking age, and driving age. Age of...
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    Alcohol (ethanol), a sedative found in alcoholic drinks. Per the National Minimum Drinking Age Act (which is voluntarily abided by all 50 U.S. states)...
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    New Zealand, Japan, Finland, and China, public drinking is socially acceptable. Opponents of drinking in public (such as religious organizations or governmental...
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    usage have included the terms age of accountability, age of responsibility, and age of liability, The term minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR)...
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  • The age of majority in England is 18, having been reduced from 21 by the Family Law Reform Act 1969. At that age persons are considered to acquire capacity...
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