Trouble understanding Functions in C

I am working through a programming assignment. I had the key validation working within main but decided to try to make it a separate function. I do not understand functions very well yet so I am unable to see where I am going wrong. Whenever I run the program, I always just get "Key is Valid" even when I know it's not. As I said, the program was running fine in main.

#include <cs50.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int validate (int c, string v[]); //prototpe validate function

int main (int argc, string argv[])
{
    int validate (int argc, string argv[]); //run validate for argc and argv

    printf("Key is valid\n"); //if valid, print message

}

int validate (int c, string v[])
{
    //Validate that only one Command Line Argument was entered
    if (c != 2) //Check the number if entered commands at execution
    {
        //If more than one, print error message
        printf("Key must be the only Command Line Argument\n");
        return 1; //Return false
    }

    //Validate that Key length is 26 characters
    if (strlen(v[1]) != 26) //Don't forget null 0
    {
        printf("Key must contain exactly 26 characters\n");
        return 1; //Return false
    }

    //Validate that all Key characters are alphabetic
    for (int i = 0, n = strlen(v[1]); i < n; i++)
    {
        //Check each element of the array
        if (isalpha(v[1][i]))
        {
            continue; //Continue if alphabetic
        }
        else
        {
            //if non-alphabetic, print error code
            printf("Key must contain only alphabetic characters\n");
            return 1; //Return false
        }
    }

    //Validate that each Key character is unique
    for (int x = 0, z = strlen(v[1]) - 1; x < z; x++)
    {
        //Create a second loop to compare every element to the first before incrementing the first
        for (int y = x + 1; y < z; y++)
        {
            //Cast array elements to int, check if each element equals next element in array
            if (v[1][x] == v[1][y])
            {
                printf("Key must contain exactly 26 unique characters\n");
                return 1;
            }
        }
    }

    return 0; //Key is valid, so return true
}

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