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The Twenty-Third Amendment is clearly the proverbial “camel’s nose in the tent,” with the tent being statehood for the District of Columbia. The Amendment treats the District of Columbia as if it were a State for purposes of the Electoral College.
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 ...
Twenty-Third Amendment: 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 ...
U.S. Constitution. 23rd Amendment. Amendment XXIII. Section 1. The District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct:
What It Means. The Constitution allowed Congress to select an area ten miles square to serve as the permanent seat of the federal government. Since 1800, the government has operated out of the District of Columbia. There were few permanent residents of the district at first, but by 1960 its population exceeded three-quarters of a million people.
Twenty-Third Amendment. Section 1; Section 2; Resources. Table of Cases; Table of Supreme Court Decisions Overruled by Subsequent Decisions; Table of Laws Held Unconstitutional in Whole or in Part by the Supreme Court; Table of Supreme Court Justices; Beyond the Constitution Annotated: Table of Additional Resources; Methodologies for the Tables
Section 2: The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. House Report No. 1698 discussed the Twenty-Third Amendment, stating that it would: provide the citizens of the District of Columbia with appropriate rights of voting in national elections for President and Vice President of the United States.
