Guarddog? I realize that I've just walked into the lion's den, because I know that you're against teenage marriage and, at the same time, I have reservations about state legislators setting a solid minimum marriageable age of 18 years old with no exceptions here in the United States of America; and I do nothing to hide my viewpoints in this regard in my articles here on Steemit. Anyhow, now and then I like to speak to the other side on this issue and find out what they have to say. Anyhow, let me ask you this one pressing question. If this movement to make the minimum marriageable age a strict 18 years old with no exceptions all over America is so popular, why aren't the people who want these laws asking state legislators to put a proposition, measure or question to this effect on each of their state's November ballots so that the voters themselves can decide on these laws instead of the legislators? It would only make sense, because changing these laws is going to affect everybody in one way or another. Moreover, such a law setting 18 years old as the minimum marriageable age with no exceptions is going to give more power to the criminal justice system than before to intervene into people's lives. To some people, that will be good, but to other's, it will not be so good. I'm just as much against sexual predators as you are. However, shouldn't it be up to the voters rather than the legislators to decide whether underage marriage is to be ended here in our nation?