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One reason may be that persons younger than 18 will not always make responsible decisions, so entrusting them with electing officials might not be prudent.
A person younger than 18 might not vote for themselves, to reflect their own beliefs, but they might be influenced or even pushed to vote for a representative or measure of their parents' choosing.
People younger than 18 generally are not educated enough about politics and policies to make smart choices when it comes to voting.
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This sentence is compound. it can be broken up into two independent clauses. these clauses are separated by the "and" in the middle.
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North America contains the largest number of oak species, with approximately 90 occurring in the United States, while Mexico has 160 species of which 109 are endemic. The second greatest center of oak diversity is China, which contains approximately 100 species.
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D. The sentence which best states the controlling idea of this passage is "The wire taps were never a secret, but they helped the United States gain military intelligence.
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The following excerpts from the passage reaffirm this controlling idea :
1. "On balance, however, some valuable information was gathered from the tapped conversations. The U.S. learned, for example, a great deal about the Soviet and Eastern European order of battle, or its military organization. Others feel that the intelligence was valuable to check against similar information obtained from other sources."
2."The evidence suggests that the CIA gained two invaluable and untainted kinds of knowledge from the taps. The agency learned a basic blueprint of the Soviet and East German security systems, and it never picked up a glimmer of warning that Moscow intended to go to war.”
