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...

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...

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

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...

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Voting rights, specifically enfranchisement and disenfranchisement of different groups, have been a moral and political issue throughout United States...

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

controversy is the District's lack of voting representation in Congress. The district's unique status creates a situation where District of Columbia residents...

and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) is a United States federal law dealing with elections and voting rights for United States citizens residing...

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...

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

with full voting rights on the floor of the U.S. House and Senate, alongside existing states. As of 2021[update], only the District of Columbia and Puerto...

was the District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment in 1978. Only 16 states had ratified it when the seven-year time limit expired. History of the United...

of the District of Columbia. As a Senator, Obama co-sponsored the failed Voting Rights Act of 2007, which would have granted the District of Columbia...

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...

capital of the United States, Washington, DC (see District of Columbia voting rights). The legal basis of the right to candidacy and right to create a political...

of the District of Columbia Recognition of same-sex unions in the District of Columbia Voting rights in the District of Columbia District of Columbia...

Congress sent the District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment to the states for ratification. This amendment would have granted the District representation...

Retrieved June 16, 2015. "Statement on the subject of The District of Columbia Fair and Equal Voting Rights Act" (PDF). American Bar Association. September...

individual votes, rather than voting en bloc, as they had in the Confederation Congress. Then Oliver Ellsworth, a leading proponent of the Connecticut Compromise...

American Revolutionary War; later used by advocates of women's suffrage, District of Columbia voting rights, student inclusion in higher education governance...

different interest groups. To protect both national authority and minority rights, Madison believed Congress should be granted veto power over state laws...

D.C. Statehood District of Columbia voting rights Winger, Richard. "DC Board of Elections, Voter Totals for February 2023". DC Board of Elections. Archived...

consequences of these ratifications, due to the expired deadlines and the five states' purported revocations. The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment...

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amendment. In Boehner v. Anderson, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the Twenty-seventh Amendment does not...

District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment saw the beginning of concerted efforts to bring about statehood for the District. Even before the Voting...

into the body of the amendment, so these amendments' deadlines are now part of the Constitution. The failed District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment also...