Question

50 points! Can anyone help with writing a poem explaining the 23rd amendment?

Answer 1

Well this is the 23rd Amendment.

The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct:

A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.

The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Here's an easy to understand version of it:

The 23rd amendment gives residents of Washington DC the right to vote for representatives in the Electoral College.  Remember that the Electoral College chooses our next president, based on the voting within their state.  Since DC is not a state, its residents were not allowed to vote for President as well as elected voting representative to Congress.

The good people of the DC
Restricted from voting for their party
Had no say in the government
Just because of where they lived and where they went

The 23rd amendment was passed
Because the people pleaded and asked

They could vote for the electoral people
They felt better now and thought the government was less evil