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.
Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article using appropriate legislation.
This amendment allowed citizens of the District of Columbia to vote in presidential elections. But why don't they have a vote in Congress? This is because they aren't a state, and the 23 amendment doesn't say any where in it that they can do anything more than have electors in the presidential election. On the other side, the District still has to pay taxes, why don't they have representation in Congress?
In my mind I believe that we should stay true to the Constitution, if we believe that they really need representation we can just make another amendment giving them that. But for now, things should stay the way they are.
This guy basically gives all of the reasons why the District of Columbia can't have a vot in Crongress.
This is a picture of the other side of the arguement. That there won't be any taxing without respresentation.
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