"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."
In amendment 23, Washington D. C. is given the same rights a state has, even though it is not a state. It is considered a state for the sole purpose of voting for the general election so that the votes cast in that city count towards the election. This is important so that the people of D. C. have the same input as all the other people in the country.
This simple video shows the importance of including the votes for the general election of the people who live in D. C. It makes complete sense for this to be an issue, and for it to be an amendment. Even though D. C. will never be a state, they deserve the same rights of people who live in the "states".
This comic is making fun of the fact that the capital of the U. S. doesn't have the rights of all the states it has united. I think its a great representation of some of the "common sense" items left out of the constitution, or the strange things that we had to add to the constitution.
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