Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution

The 23rd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the Twenty-third Amendment, the District of Columbia granted the right to provide electors for the election of President and Vice President. The amendment was proposed by Congress on June 17, 1960 and was ratified by the requisite number of states on 29 March 1961.

Wording

Section 1

English

A number of Electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to Which the District would be Entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; They Shall be in addition to Those appointed by the States, but They Shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be Electors appointed by a State; and They Shall meet in the District and perform duties as provided by seeking the twelfth article of amendment.

German

The district, which houses the seat of the Government of the United States shall designate in a particular way by the Congress:

Such number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the number of Senators and Representatives in Congress, which would be able to appoint the district if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populated state; seek to complement the authorities designated by the States Electoral College for the election of the President and the Vice-President shall even be as viewed by a state appointed electors. They are to meet in the District and perform those tasks that are specified by the twelfth Amendment to the Constitution.

Section 2

English

The Congress Shall have power to enforce this article by Appropriate legislation.

German

The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Voting rights for the District of Columbia

The District of Columbia was originally intended as a seat of government, not as a place of residence. Nevertheless, the District 1960, more than thirteen inhabitants each of the 50 states had. However, the District did not have the right to appoint electors for the election of the President; This problem has been corrected by this Amendment. The District of Columbia may now designate in the determined manner by the Congress, as many electors as a state of the same population should designate (the number of electors a state corresponds to the senators and representatives delegated by him ). However, the District of Columbia may make in no case more electors than the least populated state. Since Wyoming, the only three electoral poses with 563,000 inhabitants, the least populated state in the United States according to the 2010 census, is also the District of Columbia currently limited to the designation of a maximum of three electors. Recently, however, this rule is no longer relevant, as the District now only surpasses Wyoming population and thus would seem to represent only three electoral due to its number of inhabitants. The first presidential election in which the District of Columbia posted electors, was that of the year 1964.

The Amendment to the Constitution makes the District of Columbia no state and granted him no representation in Congress. Also the right to decide on the selection mode in determining the electors, which otherwise attributable to the individual states, not in the case of the District at its own government, but the U.S. Congress.

1978 suggested the Congress before a constitutional amendment that would have allowed the District to provide not only electors without restrictions, only depending on its population, but also representatives and senators as a state. Only on the issue of ratification of the Constitution of additives the District did not have the full rights of a State under this Amendment. This addition lapsed but in 1985, after he had not been ratified by the required three-quarters majority of the parliaments of the individual federal states - the District with its high proportion of African-American population is an absolute stronghold of the Democratic Party, thus came from the 1980 resurgent Republicans enough resistance to derail ratification.

The thus continues to this day state lack of parliamentary representation is cross-party highly unpopular in the District itself; For some time now carry all motor vehicle registration in the District, the words " taxation without representation " ( taxation without representation ), derived from the battle slogan "No taxation without representation " ( No taxation without representation ) of the American Revolutionary War.

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