The text only refers to, and I'll quote: 'The district constituting the seat of government.'
Eleanor Holmes Norton: “The text only refers to, and I'll quote: 'The district constituting the seat of government.'”
On the recordMarch 21, 2021
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Norton emphasizes that the 23rd Amendment does not specify size or population.
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