27th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States

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27th Amendment to the Constitution of the United
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Introduction

• It has never been easy to amend the constitution
  of the United States.
• The constitution can be amended in a number of
  ways.
• This can be by a vote of two-thirds of the both
  House of Representatives and the senate and then
  get ratified within three or four months of
  various state legislatures.
• It can also be amended by a convention relied on
  for this purpose by two-thirds of the state
  legislatures.

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United States Constitution

• The constitution of the United States has been
  amended many times.
• The 27th amendment is one of the widely look upon
  amendments to the constitution.
• 27th Amendment to the Constitution of the US
  barred any law that rises or decreases the salary
  of members of the congress.
• This was only until the start of the next set of
  term of office for representatives

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• It is the most recently ratified amendment in the
  United States constitution.
• It was presented by the congress to the state for
  ratification on September 25th 1789 and became a
  part of the constitution.

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27th Amendment

• It was introduced by James Madison to the First
  Congress meeting in 1789.
• The congress passed the proposed amendment by the
  necessary two-thirds vote.
• Three-fourths of states did not approve the taken
  measure until 1992.
• For many years, various states approved the
  proposal.
• New states had joined the union and this kept the
  ratification standards unworkable.

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• There was public disapproval with the
  congressional pay increases after the 1980s
  revival of interest in measure. 
• In 1992, Michigan made news by becoming the
  38th state to ratify and support the amendment.
• This meant that the three-fourths constitutional
  amendment requirement had been met. 
• Many amendment proposals have been presented but
  many have carried expired dates.
• Measures that cannot achieve the mandated
  three-fourths ratification vote by the states
  have also been avoided for a long duration.

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Meaning of the Amendment

• It accentuates that another election has to be
  done before pay rise for members of the congress
  can take effect.
• Earlier days, congress had the power to set its
  salary.
• This issue that bothered the firs authors of the
  amendment.
• During the first ratification Maryland, North
  Carolina, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia and
  Delaware were the first states that took part in
  the ratification of the amendment.

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• The current American generation may be wondering
  why it took about 200 years for the amendment to
  be ratified after its proposal.
• The Supreme Court ruled that if the amendment had
  unspecified date, then it would be easy for the
  state legislatures to approve the amendment.
• The text that related to the 27th amendment to
  the constitution of the U.S states
• No law, varying the compensation for the
  services of the Senators and Representatives,
  shall take effect, until an election of
  Representatives shall have intervened.

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