Posted on 07/21/2009 9:54:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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 twelth article of amendment.
Section 2. : The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
(Excerpt) Read more at caselaw.lp.findlaw.com ...
Amendment XXIII was the twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution which permits the District of Columbia to choose Electors for President and Vice President. The amendment was proposed by Congress on June 17, 1960, and ratified by the states on March 29, 1961. The first Presidential election in which it was in effect was the presidential election of 1964.
FindLaw's commentary: "[This] . . . amendment would change the Constitution only to the minimum extent necessary to give the District appropriate participation in national elections. It would not make the District of Columbia a State. It would not give the District of Columbia any other attributes of a State or change the constitutional powers of the Congress to legislate with respect to the District of Columbia and to prescribe its form of government. . . . It would, however, perpetuate recognition of the unique status of the District as the seat of Federal Government under the exclusive legislative control of Congress."[H.R. Rep. No. 1698, 86th Cong., 2d Sess. 1, 2 (1960).]
WikiPedia commentary: Ratification was completed on March 29, 1961. The amendment was subsequently ratified by the following states:The amendment was rejected by the following state:
- New Hampshire (March 30, 1961, rescinded later that same day)
- Alabama (April 16, 2002)
The following states have not ratified the amendment:
- Arkansas (January 24, 1961)
- Florida
- Kentucky
- Mississippi
- Georgia
- South Carolina
- Louisiana
- Texas
- North Carolina
- Virginia
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If I read this right, it enfranchises the residents of the District of Columbia....hell no and Puerto Rico either....I’m glad my state didn’t ratify......
Well..., I keep hearing about the 25th Amendment in the TV series “24” and it seems that they are always trying to kick the President out of office this way... LOL...
25th Amendment...
Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
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As that show says, it does say “how” the President is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.” LOL...
It gave Congress three electoral votes to play with, which is three too many.
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