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...

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...

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...

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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...

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

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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

United States, Washington, DC (see District of Columbia voting rights). A recent example of how the "right to vote" changed over history is New Zealand...

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

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

taxes, such as the women's suffrage movement, advocates of District of Columbia voting rights, students seeking to be included in governance in higher...

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...

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

Documentary Film, Memory and the Performance of Violence by Joram ten Brink, Joshua Oppenheimer, Columbia University Press, 2012, page 84 Guevara, Che...

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

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

in 1969. As of 2022[update], this was the most recent Congress to approve an amendment (the unratified District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment) to...

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constitution of a new state to be called "New Columbia". This campaign for statehood stalled. After the District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment expired...

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