23rd Amendment
The 23rd Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961, grants residents of Washington, D.C. the right to vote in presidential elections. Before the amendment, D.C. residents were unable to participate in the selection of the president and vice president. This amendment aimed to provide greater political representation for the residents of the nation's capital.
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eBook - ePubThe Origin of the Nation: Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights and Other Amendments, Federalist Papers & Common Sense
Creating America - Landmark Documents that Shaped a New Nation
- Thomas Paine, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay(Authors)
- 2017(Publication Date)
- Madison & Adams Press(Publisher)
...2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress. AMENDMENT XXIII: Presidential Vote for District of Columbia Table of Contents (Ratified March 29, 1961) Sec. 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; 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 such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment. Sec. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. AMENDMENT XXIV: Poll Tax Barred Table of Contents (Ratified January 23, 1964) Sec. 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax. Sec. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. AMENDMENT XXV: Presidential Disability and Succession Table of Contents (Ratified February 10, 1967) Sec. 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President. Sec...
eBook - ePub- Frederick G. Whelan(Author)
- 2018(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
...1, sec. 2). Specification of the qualifications of voters, however, was left to the states, in deference to federalism, and the criteria varied. Over time, the suffrage has been both nationalized and democratized, as disqualifications of race, sex, tax status, and age have been removed by constitutional amendments. Modern political democracies generally have national standards and procedures for voting. The rule of inclusive citizenship is needed since what may appear to be fully democratic procedures, such as free elections and majoritarian decision-making, may be followed among a subset of a polity’s population, such as in South Africa before 1993 or some US states before 1965. Such a system as a whole cannot be regarded as democratic notwithstanding the self-government practiced among the privileged subpopulation. A final preliminary issue is whether the right to vote may be restricted by the requirement of paying a tax or fee or, as in many private organizations, membership dues. Some important rights of individuals or citizens in the public sphere, such as the right to a passport or to drive a motor vehicle, require the payment of a fee, usually justified as covering the administrative costs of the program. The charging of a fee to vote in public elections is repudiated in democracies, presumably because voting is regarded as a particularly important aspect of citizenship and since high levels of participation are considered desirable. In US history poll taxes were once employed to depress voting levels by African-Americans and the poor generally. The Constitutional prohibition of poll taxes (Amendment 24) thus reflected the 1960s movement for racial equality more than democratic theory as such...
