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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.
In 2015, National Assembly passed the 21st Amendment and created the military courts for the period of 2 years. The period of two years was expired on 6 January 2017 hence this 23rd Amendment was passed to re-establish the military courts for further two years till 6 January 2019.
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
Since the enactment of the 23rd amendment to the Constitution in 1961, [1] the District of Columbia has participated in 16 presidential elections.The amendment states that it cannot have any more electoral votes than the state with the smallest number of electors. [2]
The Twenty-third Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Twenty-third Amendment) Act, 1969, discontinued reservation of seats for the Scheduled Tribes in Nagaland, both in the Lok Sabha and the State Legislative Assembly and stipulated that not more than one Anglo-Indian could be nominated by the Governor to any State Legislative Assembly.
The twenty-third article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. Section 4. 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. [2]
The amended proposal was passed 59–23, with 16 Democrats in favor, on March 12. [1] [18] On March 21, the House agreed to the Senate's revisions and approved the resolution to amend the Constitution. Afterward, the amendment imposing term limitations on future presidents was submitted to the states for ratification.