Voting rights of citizens in the District of Columbia differ from the rights of citizens in the 50 U.S. states. The United States Constitution grants...

The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would have given the District of Columbia...

Voting rights of United States citizens who live in Puerto Rico, like the voting rights of residents of other United States territories, differ from those...

District of Columbia retrocession is the act of returning some or all of the land that had been ceded to the federal government of the United States for...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed...

statehood include the retrocession of the District of Columbia and voting rights reforms. If the District of Columbia were to become a state, it would be...

District of Columbia home rule is the District of Columbia residents' ability to govern their local affairs. As the federal capital, the Constitution...

Voting rights of citizens in Guam differ from those of United States citizens in each of the fifty states. In the U.S. House of Representatives, Guam...

"one man, one vote" electoral system. Since the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Twenty-fourth Amendment, and related laws, voting rights have been legally...

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly called Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. The...

This is a timeline of voting rights in the United States, documenting when various groups in the country gained the right to vote or were disenfranchised...

movement and the proposed District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment, have been unsuccessful. Opponents of D.C. voting rights propose that the Founding...

of the Whole. The district has been represented by Democrat Eleanor Holmes Norton since 1991. District of Columbia voting rights District of Columbia...

commissioner in Congress. District of Columbia voting rights District of Columbia statehood movement Federal voting rights in Puerto Rico Statehood movement...

The District of Columbia was created in 1801 as the federal district of the United States, with territory previously held by the states of Maryland and...

Because of the District of Columbia's status as a federal enclave (it is not in any U.S. state), the decision did not address the question of whether...

Blair of New Hampshire to grant the District of Columbia voting rights in presidential elections, but it did not proceed. Theodore W. Noyes, a writer of the...

age. The most common voting age is 18, though some countries have minimum voting ages set as young as 16 or as old as 21. Voting in Australia is compulsory...

and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 has prohibited non-citizens from voting in federal elections, with the threat of fines, imprisonment, inadmissibility...

functions. Non-voting members may vote in a House committee of which they are a member and introduce legislation. There are currently six non-voting members:...

Postal voting is voting in an election where ballot papers are distributed to electors (and typically returned) by post, in contrast to electors voting in...

ch. 35, 9 Stat. 35. "Statement on the subject of The District of Columbia Fair and Equal Voting Rights Acts" (PDF). American Bar Association. 2006-09-14...

America Vote Act (HAVA) in 2002 that mandated various administrative requirements for federal elections with respect to voting systems, provisional voting, posting...

extend federal voting rights to territorial residents under other constitutional powers. Voting rights in the United States District of Columbia voting rights...

Council of the District of Columbia (often abbreviated as the D.C. Council) is the legislative branch of the government of the District of Columbia. As permitted...

entities have granted voting rights to non-citizens. Other countries have granted voting rights to non-citizens who hold citizenship of a country which is...

as the Transvaal Republic, set a voting age of 18 years. The effort was, like later legislation expanding voting rights for women and impoverished whites...

subdivision to its capital (c.f. District of Columbia (United States), Federal District (Brazil), Federal Capital Territory (Nigeria), National Capital...

The mayor of the District of Columbia is the head of the executive branch of the government of the District of Columbia. The mayor has the duty to enforce...

District of Columbia (USADC) is responsible for representing the federal government in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia....