Over the years, most recently pursuant to the Home Rule Act, Congress has exercised that power to extend to the District a measure of autonomy, including the power to elect a Mayor and a Council. Since its creation, the District has sometimes been treated like a State.
The District is deemed to be a State for the purpose of levying and collecting federal and local taxes, for service in the armed forces, for diversity jurisdiction, and for regulating commerce. But it still remains that, at present, the District is not considered a State for purposes of congressional representation. Nothing in the Twenty-Third Amendment changes that: the Amendment neither grants the District statehood, nor does it provide residents with representation in the Senate or the House of Representatives, though, by congressional legislation, residents have long had the right to elect a non-voting delegate to the House.
Only 16 of the 38 States needed for ratification approved the proposed amendment before the seven-year period open for ratification expired. There are two important points to consider about the Twenty-Third Amendment: The first and perhaps most crucial, as Rep.
The second and no less significant point to bear in mind is that the people of the District of Columbia were not always second-class citizens. For a while after Virginia and Maryland ceded land to the federal government to form the District, residents living within the geographical boundaries of the District did vote in the elections of federal officers for Virginia and Maryland. The capitals for these 24 states fall along three main categories: 1 capital as city-state; 2 capital within a state or province; and 3 a federal district or territory.
Today, the capitals of 11 of the 24 federated systems essentially accord with the third or D. The debate surrounding the Clause indicates that the Framers intended to insulate the Federal Government from the influence of any one state but nothing in those debates settled the question of representation for residents of the District. In fact, as far as we can tell, as Judge Oberdorfer of the D.
Clinton D. The practice would continue for a decade until Congress adopted the Organic Act in and assumed full authority over District government. For example, with respect to the House of Representatives, the argument goes: 1 the right of any citizen to full House representation rests exclusively in Article I; 2 Article I provides that only qualified citizens have the right to be represented in the House of Representatives; 3 a citizen is qualified under Article I if he or she is a resident of a state; 4 the District of Columbia is not a state; therefore 5 District residents are not qualified under Article I and have no voting rights.
However, the question of whether the District should be declared or called a state is separate from—and in a way less important than—the question of whether the people of the District should have full representation in Congress. Today, the Twenty-Third Amendment, giving the people of the District the right to choose electors to participate in the elections of the President and Vice President, together with the Home Rule Act, giving the District the right to elect a Mayor and Council, have gone some way in bringing District residents closer to full citizenship.
But it still remains that the District has no voting representative in the Senate or the House, no final control over its taxes, and no dominion even over its laws, which Congress can overrule when it so chooses.
This quasi-colonial relationship is often explained away with claims on the one hand that congressional representation would result in the District having outsized power given its small geographic footprint and small population, and on the other hand that any disadvantages to not having full legislative representation are more than outweighed by the supposed financial benefits the District receives from its relationship with the federal government.
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