Age Limits, Founding Fathers, and the Foreseen vs. Unforeseen Age Limits, Founding Fathers, and the Foreseen vs. Unforeseen The U.S. Constitution sets the minimum age for serving in the House of Representatives at 25 years old . Fast forward to modern medical science, and we now know that brain development isn’t fully complete until around age 26 . It's a fascinating case of foresight—or perhaps the best estimate of maturity given their understanding at the time. This often gets me thinking about common arguments for restricting constitutional rights based on what the Founding Fathers “couldn’t have foreseen.” A favorite target? The Second Amendment and its relationship to modern firearms like automatic weapons. But let's consider a better example of what they couldn’t have foreseen : the invention of nuclear weapons . The sheer scale of destruction po...
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