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Section 1
The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as Congress may direct: A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of the 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.
Amendment 23, passed by Congress on June 17, 1960, and ratified on March 29, 1961, provides for citizens in the District of Columbia to vote for Electors for President and Vice President:
The first Presidential election in which it was in effect was the presidential election of 1964.
Prior to the passage of the amendment, residents of Washington, D.C. were unable to vote for President or Vice President as the District is not a U.S. state. They are still unable to send voting Representatives or Senators to Congress.
The amendment restricts the district to the number of Electors of the least populous state, irrespective of its own population. As of 2010, that is Wyoming and three Electors. However, even without this clause, the district’s present population would only entitle it to three electors. 1
Because the positions of president and vice president and elections are themselves unbiblical, the additional regulations found in Amendment 23 are extraneous. See Chapter 5 “Article 2: Executive Usurpation” for more regarding these superfluous position of leadership and the unbiblical nature of elections.
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End Notes
1. “Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution,” Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-third_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution>.
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