23rd Amendment News Today

Addressing a public event in Rewa, Modi said, "Earlier governments hesitated to spend money for villages as they were not a vote bank in themselves. That is why they were ignored... Many political parties were running their ‘shops' by dividing village folks.”

What stands between the District of Columbia and statehood is not the Constitution — it is politics, dressed up as a constitutional argument.

This week, the House of Representatives will vote on H.R. 51, a bill admitting Washington, D.C. as the 51st state. This bill is flatly unconstitutional and...

Too narrow what it means to be an american but to protect and expand it. the 26th amendment ratified in 1971 lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, expanding the franchise to 11 million people at the time. the 24th amendment, 1964, allowed all eligible people to vote whether or not they had the means to pay those poll taxes. the 23rd amendment, 1961, the first time people living in the nations capital had the right to vote in presidential elections, so that was new for them. 1920, the 19th amendm...