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The Strange Saga of the 27th Amendment. It was first proposed in 1789, but it took 200 years and a campaign by a Texas university student before it was finally ratified. By: Evan Andrews....
Twenty-seventh Amendment, amendment (1992) to the Constitution of the United States that required any change to the rate of compensation for members of the U.S. Congress to take effect only after the subsequent election in the House of Representatives. Commonly known as the Congressional.
The Twenty-seventh Amendment (Amendment XXVII, also known as the Congressional Compensation Act of 1789[1]) to the United States Constitution states that any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of Congress may take effect only after the next election of the House of Representatives has occurred.
A comprehensive, scholarly treatment of the background, development, failure, and subsequent success of this amendment is Bernstein, The Sleeper Wakes: The History and Legacy of the Twenty-Seventh Amendment, 61 Ford. L. Rev. 497 (1992).
The Twenty-Seventh Amendment has one of the most unusual histories of any amendment ever made to the U.S. Constitution. Congress passed the Twenty-Seventh Amendment by a two-thirds vote of both Houses, in 1789, along with eleven other proposed constitutional amendments (the last ten of which were ratified by the states in 1791, becoming the ...
Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon/KUT. Twenty-five years ago, the 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified — nearly two centuries after it was written. The improbable story of how that happened...
History of the 27th Amendment. As it is today, congressional pay was a hotly debated topic in 1787 during the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Benjamin Franklin opposed paying congress members any salary at all. Doing so, Franklin argued, would result in representatives seeking office only to further their “selfish pursuits.”
Here is a summary of the 27 amendments to the Constitution: First Amendment (ratified 1791) In order to secure support for the Constitution among Anti- Federalists, who feared it gave too...
The Twenty-Seventh Amendment ’s history spans more than two centuries from the Colonial Era to the 1990s. Generally, the governments of Great Britain’s American colonies—and, later, the state governments—followed the “ancient” British practice of compensating legislators. 4.
Thereafter, the Amendment lay dormant until the late twentieth century when it was rediscovered by Gregory D. Watson, then an undergraduate student at the University of Texas at Austin. 1 9. Watson wrote a paper for a political science class arguing that the states could still ratify the Amendment 20.