The age of majority is the threshold of adulthood as recognized or declared in law. It is the moment when minors cease to be considered such and assume legal control over their persons, actions, and decisions, thus terminating the control and legal responsibilities of their parents or guardian over them. Most countries set the age of majority at 18, but some jurisdictions have a higher age and others lower. The word majority here refers to having greater years and being of full age as opposed to minority , the state of being a minor. The law in a given jurisdiction may not actually use the term "age of majority". The term typically refers to a collection of laws bestowing the status of adulthood. Age of majority should not be confused with the age of maturity , age of sexual consent , marriageable age , school-leaving age , drinking age , driving age , voting age , smoking age , gambling age , etc.

The proposed legislation was never meant to be taken seriously, said John Rodgers, a Vermont state senator and a fierce gun rights advocate. Rodgers wrote in a bill this month proposing to outlaw the use of cellphones by anyone under It was in part, he said, a rebuke of a law Vermont passed in that banned the sale of firearms to most people under 21, and an attempt to show the absurdity of allowing year-olds to go to war but forbidding them from enjoying the constitutional rights and vices afforded to older Americans. Rodgers, who said his family had been hunting the woods of the Northeast Kingdom since the s, was quickly bombarded with angry tweets, emails and calls to his home that accused him of trying to create a nanny state.

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