Thursday, December 1, 2011

Twenty-Third Amendment

Ratified March 29, 1961

The twenty-third amendment states...
      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.


What it means to me...
      This amendment basically amended Article 2, Section 2 of the Constitution because it gave electors to the District of Columbia. It  also gave Congress the authority to enforce the amendment through legislation.

The following is a video relating to this amendment...
This is a video some students made as a way to depict the 23rd amendment.

The following is another video relating to the 23rd amendment...
This is another student-made video to teach us about the 23rd amendment.

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