When was the 23rd amendment written

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Rural states objected that the intensely urban District differed radically from all the other states. Others argued that Article V of the Constitution specified that no state would be deprived of its equal representation in the Senate, and that adding two senators for the District would dilute their own votes. Republicans also worried that congressional races in the District, with its high proportion of Democrats, would not be competitive. The Constitution allowed Congress to select an area ten miles square to serve as the permanent seat of the federal government.

Since , the government has operated out of the District of Columbia. There were few permanent residents of the district at first, but by its population exceeded three-quarters of a million people. As a federal district, the capital had neither an elected local governor nor the right to vote in national elections. At the same time, District residents had all the responsibilities of citizenship.

The Twenty-third Amendment did not make Washington, D. The amendment did not provide the District with representation in Congress, but subsequently the District gained a nonvoting delegate in the House of Representatives and an elected local government.

I have always felt that the District of Columbia should be the model of perfection in municipal government, and showplace for our Nation for all who visit the National Capital to see. As a result of ratification of the 23rd Amendment, the people of the District are now able to vote for President and Vice President. This is not enough. They should also be entitled to representation in the Congress. Ratified March 29, Section 1 The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as 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.

Section 2 The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.