The Twenty-Thrid Amendment

"Section 1. 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."

Until the Presidential election of 1964, the residents of Washington D.C. had never had the opportunity to vote for a President.  With the ratification of the Twenty-third Amendment on March 29, 1961, they received that right.  Once again, this represents the expansion of the great American notion of "We The People".  That "We The People" now included the right of those citizens living within the District of Columbia to vote for their President.  While the amendment does represent significant progress, residents of D.C. are still unable to elect representatives or Senators to Congress.  

What the United States government is doing to Washington D.C. is almost criminal and certainly unconstitutional.  I understand the importance of having an impartial national capital, and I am certainly against D.C. Statehood, but the residence of Washington D.C. are being hosed.  The D.C. public school system is in the hands of the federal government and is one of the worst public school systems in the entire country.  That is a shame.  The residence of D.C. should have complete and total control of their own public school system and not be in the hands of politicians whom have no vested interest in the system.