23 AMENDMENT

Section. 1. The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct: 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.

HISTORY OF THE AMENDMENT

• The 23 amendment was passed on march 29, 1961.
• Before this amendment the residents of the d.c area lacked representation.
• Also residents could not vote before 1961.

The purpose of the 23 amendment is to provide the district of columbia with appropriate rights of voting in national elections for President and Vice President of the United States.

Controversy around the 23 amendment was that the d.c area would have more voting rights than other states.

The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution extends the right to vote in the presidential election to citizens residing in the District of Columbia by granting the District electors in the Electoral College, as if it were a state. The amendment was proposed by the 86th Congress on June 16, 1960, and ratified by the states on March 29, 1961.

The 23 amendment really hasn't affected Americans culture other than it gives Washington, D.C. The right to vote in national elections for president and Vice President.

From the 1870's till 1961 people of the D.C area. We're denied the rights to vote. The 23 amendment gave them the right to vote for presidents in the elections. With this the d.c area elects three presidential electors.

COURT CASES AND PEOPLE

• Reynolds v. Sims in 1964(one person per vote rulings)
• Attorney Gen. of Guam v. United States
• This is a case about how the constitution treats the right to vote for
• Presidential electors in general.

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