Saturday, September 3, 2011

Repeal the 23rd Amendment

What is the 23rd Amendment to the US Constitution?

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.

Why Repeal?

Giving D.C. - a territory - is hypocritical and unconstitutional. There is no amendment providing for the territories to be able to vote for President, nor did the Founders intend for residents of the District to vote. Congress has 3 electoral votes. This is unacceptable, embarrassing and no solution to the .D.C voting rights issue.

Repeal the Amendment, and replace it with an amendment to clarify that residents of D.C. who live on the territory of Maryland are entitled to vote as residents of Maryland, and to be represented in Maryland. Why? because D.C. is just the Capitol + part of Maryland.

If this were done, D.C. would share the 2 senators of Maryland, have one voting representative and be able to vote for President again. Remember: we are giving representation to D.C. residents not getting rid of it.

I support the repeal of the Twenty-Third Amendment. - Smart aka Reuven

4 comments:

  1. I mostly agree. DC isn't a state it's a city, a county if you want to be generous. DC residents should be allowed to vote as Marylanders, at least in federal matters.

    For the record tough, the part of DC that isn't on the territory of Maryland, Arlington County, is no longer part of DC. The whole of (what's left of) DC is on Maryland territory.

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  2. Actually DC isn't a part of Maryland. The land that DC is on was ceded by Maryland, just as the territory that is now Kentucky was once a part of Virginia, and Tennessee was part of North Carolina but were ceded. DC is completely independent of Maryland, which was the intentions of the Founding Fathers, an independent capital not a part of any state. The real solution I see is to repeal the 23rd and give the residential parts of the district back to Maryland (as was done with the parts originally ceded by Virginia) and only keep the core (White House, Capitol, National Mall, SCOTUS, and offices) under the control of Congress as the Capitol District.

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  3. Actually DC isn't a part of Maryland. The land that DC is on was ceded by Maryland, just as the territory that is now Kentucky was once a part of Virginia, and Tennessee was part of North Carolina but were ceded. DC is completely independent of Maryland, which was the intentions of the Founding Fathers, an independent capital not a part of any state. The real solution I see is to repeal the 23rd and give the residential parts of the district back to Maryland (as was done with the parts originally ceded by Virginia) and only keep the core (White House, Capitol, National Mall, SCOTUS, and offices) under the control of Congress as the Capitol District.

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  4. Trump's lawyers should start working on this as soon as possible as the original Amendment is a farce being that D.C.doesn't have a vote in the event of a House election of the President,therefore it isn't a state.If Hillary wins by DC's vote in the Electoral College,Trump will be livid-as he should be.

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