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Twenty-Third Amendment  

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  • Gives residents of the District of Columbia electors in presidential elections. Until the Constitution was written, the location of the capital of the United States was ever changing—at various times, it moved or was forced to move to Philadelphia, Trenton, New York, and elsewhere. [Source: Student's Guide to the Presidency; Twenty-third Amendment (1961)]

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Date

  • 1961

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Twenty-Third_Amendment

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