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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 1978, Congress proposed the District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment. Under this amendment, the District of Columbia would have been "treated as though it were a State" regarding congressional representation, presidential elections (replacing the limited treatment under the Twenty-third Amendment), and the constitutional amendment process.
A constitutional amendment would require a two-thirds vote in the House and the Senate (or a request for a convention by two-thirds of the states), and ratification by three-fourths of state ...
[23] 1875. Minor v. Happersett goes to the Supreme Court, where it is decided that suffrage is not a right of citizenship and women do not necessarily have the right to vote. [24] 1876. Native Americans are ruled non-citizens and ineligible to vote by the Supreme Court of the United States. [11]
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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
The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1961, under which the District of Columbia is treated as a state for purposes of the presidential election, except that it cannot have more electoral votes than the state with the least number of electors.