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- La ley nacional sobre la edad mínima legal para el consumo de alcohol (en inglés, National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984) es una ley federal de Estados Unidos, aprobada el 17 de julio de 1984 por el Congreso de los Estados Unidos. Esta ley castigaría a cualquier estado que permitiera a los menores de 21 años comprar bebidas alcohólicas reduciendo su asignación anual de carreteras federales en un 10%. La ley fue modificada posteriormente, reduciendo la sanción al 8% a partir del año fiscal 2012. Mientras esta ley no prohibiera el consumo de bebidas alcohólicas a aquellos menores de 21 años, algunos estados extendieron sus provisiones dentro de una prohibición declarada. Mientras, muchos estados continuaron permitiendo el consumo de alcohol a menores en algunas circunstancias. En otros estados no se puso en marcha la restricción y el consumo privado mientras que en otros el consumo solo estaba permitido en localidades específicas en presencia, consentimiento y supervisión de familiares o en ocasiones religiosas. (es)
- 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 Reagan on July 17, 1984. The act would punish any state that allowed persons under 21 years to purchase alcoholic beverages by reducing its annual federal highway apportionment by 10 percent. The law was later amended, lowering the penalty to 8 percent from fiscal year 2012 and beyond. Despite its name, this act did not outlaw the consumption of alcoholic beverages by those under 21 years of age, just their purchase. However, Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, New Hampshire, and West Virginia, extended the law into an outright ban. The minimum purchase and drinking ages is a state law, and most states still permit "underage" consumption of alcohol in some circumstances. In some states, no restriction on private consumption is made, while in other states, consumption is only allowed in specific locations, in the presence of consenting and supervising family members, as in the states of Colorado, Maryland, Montana, New York, Texas, Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Some states even allow persons under 21 years of age drink alcohol in public places, such as in Ohio, Texas, Massachusetts and Louisiana as long as the parent or guardian consents to it and is the one that buys the alcohol and is at least 21 years old. The act also does not seek to criminalize alcohol consumption during religious occasions (e.g., communion wines, Kiddush). The act was expressly upheld as constitutional in 1987 by the United States Supreme Court in South Dakota v. Dole. (en)
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