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The Twenty-third Amendment (Amendment XXIII) to the United States Constitution extends the right to participate in presidential elections to the District of Columbia. The amendment grants to the district electors in the Electoral College , as though it were a state , though the district can never have more electors than the least-populous state.
The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far is the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol.
The United States Constitution and its amendments comprise hundreds of clauses which outline the functioning of the United States Federal Government, the political relationship between the states and the national government, and affect how the United States federal court system interprets the law.
A proposed amendment becomes an operative part of the Constitution as soon as it is ratified by three-fourths of the States (currently 38 of the 50 states). There is no further step. The text requires no additional action by Congress or anyone else after ratification by the required number of states. [133]
The Twenty-third Amendment may refer to the: Twenty-third Amendment of the Constitution of India, 1969 amendment relating to reserved seats in the parliament, including the abolition of tribal reservation for Nagaland; Twenty-third Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, which permitted the state to recognise the International Criminal Court
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