Question

When the 23rd Amendment was passed, it gave voting rights to residents of Washington, DC. Why were they excluded from all of the previous amendments that gave voting rights?
A.
Only politicians were allowed to live in Washington, DC. Previously, people in government were not allowed to vote for themselves.
B.
Washington, DC is not a part of a state; the original Constitution says that only the residents of states were eligible to vote for president.
C.
Washington, DC did not have a large enough population to be eligible to vote.
D.
Before the amendment, it was thought that it was not a good idea to give people who lived so close to the president the right to vote for the president.

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Washington, DC is not a part of a state; the original Constitution says that only the residents of states were eligible to vote for president.

Explanation:

The reason Washington, DC. residents were excluded from all of the previous amendments that gave voting rights was because " Washington, DC is not a part of a state; the original Constitution says that only the residents of states were eligible to vote for president."

Before the passage of the 23rd amendment in the United States in 1961, the United States Constitution only allows each state with a presidential elector that is equivalent in numbers to the total number of representatives it has in the House of Representatives and Senate. And given the fact that Washington DC is only but a District, the residents were not allowed to vote, until the passage of the 23rd Amendment