What exactly does the 23rd amendment mean?

Question

I need help with my constitutional project and i need to know what exactly it means and i need to make a visual poster board to describe it. What should i put on the poster board to show what it is?

Answer 1

Here's a link. It basically gives Washington DC the right to elect members of the electoral college to elect the President and VP.

Answer 2

Section 1. 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 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.


District of Columbia voting rights
The District of Columbia was originally envisioned as a center of government, not of population.[citation needed] Nevertheless, in 1960, the District had a greater population than thirteen of the fifty states. The District, however, did not have the power to select members of the Electoral College in Presidential elections; the problem was addressed by the amendment. The District of Columbia may now choose, in such a manner as Congress directs, as many Electors as could a state of its population, as each state chooses as many Electors as it has Senators and Representatives in Congress. The District, however, may not in any event choose more Electors than the least populous state. Since Wyoming, the least populous state (with a population of under 500,000 according to the 2000 Census) chooses only three Electors, the District of Columbia is currently limited to a maximum of three Electors. While this limit cost the District one electoral vote in Presidential Elections from 1964 through 1980, when the District's population would have otherwise entitled it to four Electors, the population of the District as of the 1980 United States Census and each United States Census since then would have entitled it to the three electoral votes when it was reapportioned.

The amendment does not make the District of Columbia a state and does not grant it representation in the United States Congress. In 1978, Congress proposed an amendment that would have permitted the District of Columbia to choose Electors, Representatives and Senators just like a state. However, that amendment expired by its own terms in 1985, having failed to be ratified by the required three-quarters majority of the states.

Answer 3

The District of Columbia is not a state, and so it fell into kind of a Constitutional netherworld.

The 23rd amendment essentially gave residents of this non-state the right to vote.

Answer 4

The 23rd amendment gives the District of Columbia electoral votes for president. It does not give them any other voting rights (in Congress, for example). It just gives them 3 electoral votes for president.

Answer 5

We are lucky to have Elizabeth Warren. She is a fantastic consumer advocate that we need. I was on the fence about her until I learned more about who she is. I support her. She's one of the good guys. Don't fall for the fear put out by the GOP. That's what they do. Scare you into voting against what is in your best interest. It's freedom to break away from fear. Go Sadcat - so typical - they can't be bothered it appears to have legitimate points of contention. It made it easy for me to totally reject them.

Answer 6

it means the DC gets a say in government