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...

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...

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...

District of Columbia retrocession is the act of returning some or all of the land that had been ceded to the federal government of the United States for...

District of Columbia home rule is the District of Columbia residents' ability to govern their local affairs. As the federal capital, the Constitution...

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...

Voting rights of citizens in Guam differ from those of United States citizens in each of the fifty states. In the U.S. House of Representatives, Guam...

"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...

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...

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly called Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. The...

movement and the proposed District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment, have been unsuccessful. Opponents of D.C. voting rights propose that the Founding...

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...

for full voting representation for the District of Columbia. An initial proposal by Rep. Earle Cabell (D–TX) suggested creating two non-voting delegate...

commissioner in Congress. District of Columbia voting rights District of Columbia statehood movement Federal voting rights in Puerto Rico Statehood movement...

subdivision to its capital (c.f. District of Columbia (United States), Federal District (Brazil), Federal Capital Territory (Nigeria), National Capital...

Because of the District of Columbia's status as a federal enclave (it is not in any U.S. state), the decision did not address the question of whether...

The District of Columbia was created in 1801 as the federal district of the United States, with territory previously held by the states of Maryland and...

age. The most common voting age is 18, though some countries have minimum voting ages set as young as 16 or as old as 21. Voting in Australia is compulsory...

functions. Non-voting members may vote in a House committee of which they are a member and introduce legislation. There are currently six non-voting members:...

Postal voting is voting in an election where ballot papers are distributed to electors (and typically returned) by post, in contrast to electors voting in...

entities have granted voting rights to non-citizens. Other countries have granted voting rights to non-citizens who hold citizenship of a country which is...

as the Transvaal Republic, set a voting age of 18 years. The effort was, like later legislation expanding voting rights for women and impoverished whites...

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

equal voting rights with men, making New Zealand the first nation in the world to allow women to vote. 1969 – Voting age lowered to 20. 1974 – Voting age...

vote in elections. While federal law does not prohibit noncitizens from voting in state or local elections, no state has allowed noncitizens to vote in...

fully enfranchised in practice throughout the United States by the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Prior to the Civil War and the Reconstruction Amendments to...

The District of Columbia Home Rule Act is a United States federal law passed on December 24, 1973, which devolved certain congressional powers of the...

The Council of the District of Columbia (shortly as the D.C. Council) is the legislative branch of the government of the District of Columbia. As permitted...

of the District of Columbia Recognition of same-sex unions in the District of Columbia Voting rights in the District of Columbia District of Columbia...