The founding fathers wanted the new US capital to be independent of any state, as the founders worried that if the capital were to be a state, the members of the government would be unduly beholden to it.
The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution extends the right to vote in the presidential election to citizens residing in the District of Columbia by granting the District electors in the Electoral College, as if it were a state.
The proposed amendment encountered significant opposition. Rural states objected that the intensely urban district differed radically from all the other states.
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