Monday, November 01, 2004

The 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was proposed as part of the original Bill of Rights and was ratified by Maryland in December of 1789. Almost 203 years later it was finally ratified by New Jersey in 1992. California was the last to actually get in line, waiting until a month after the amendment was ratified.

The 27th Amendment: No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.

It took two centuries for the Distinguished Gentleman of our nation to agree that they should not give themselves raises whenever they felt like it however they felt like it.

Interesting.


promulgated by SWS2.1 at 21:57.
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