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The Twenty-seventh Amendment (Amendment XXVII) to the United States Constitution prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of Congress from taking effect until the start of the next set of terms of office for Representatives. It is the most recent amendment to be adopted, but one of the first proposed.
It was submitted by Congress to the states for ratification on September 25, 1789, along with eleven other proposed amendments. While ten of these twelve proposals were ratified in 1791 to become the Bill of Rights, what would become the Twenty-seventh Amendment and the proposed Congressional Apportionment Amendment did not get ratified by enough states for them to also come into force with the first ten amendments. The proposed congressional pay amendment was largely forgotten until 1982 when Gregory Watson researched it as a student at the University of Texas at Austin and began a new campaign for its ratification.[1] The amendment eventually became part of the United States Constitution on May 5, 1992, completing a record-setting ratification period of 202 years, 7 months, and 10 days.[2]
That was the last amendment passed.....back in 1992.
Hell, we dont even try to pass laws anymore. We just do executive orders. Why try to work with the other side?
Our federal agencies write their own "laws"....or regulations, bypassing congress. Giving them more power than our founders ever dreamed of
The supreme court no longer just rules on the constitutionality of a law....they help rewrite it.
Seems like we have gone over the edge as to what was intended, and how much much power we so called people granted to the government to rule over us
Anyone else want to go back to doing things the "right" way?
It was submitted by Congress to the states for ratification on September 25, 1789, along with eleven other proposed amendments. While ten of these twelve proposals were ratified in 1791 to become the Bill of Rights, what would become the Twenty-seventh Amendment and the proposed Congressional Apportionment Amendment did not get ratified by enough states for them to also come into force with the first ten amendments. The proposed congressional pay amendment was largely forgotten until 1982 when Gregory Watson researched it as a student at the University of Texas at Austin and began a new campaign for its ratification.[1] The amendment eventually became part of the United States Constitution on May 5, 1992, completing a record-setting ratification period of 202 years, 7 months, and 10 days.[2]
That was the last amendment passed.....back in 1992.
Hell, we dont even try to pass laws anymore. We just do executive orders. Why try to work with the other side?
Our federal agencies write their own "laws"....or regulations, bypassing congress. Giving them more power than our founders ever dreamed of
The supreme court no longer just rules on the constitutionality of a law....they help rewrite it.
Seems like we have gone over the edge as to what was intended, and how much much power we so called people granted to the government to rule over us
Anyone else want to go back to doing things the "right" way?