Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution
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.
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2024年12月3日 · 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.
Twenty-Seventh Amendment | Resources - Constitution Annotated
The original text of the Twenty-Seventh Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
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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 Bill of Rights).
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No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of representatives shall have intervened.
27th Amendment - Changes in Pay for Members of Congress - Findlaw
2024年8月2日 · The 27th Amendment prohibits salary changes for members of Congress until after an election of representatives. To put it differently, senators and representatives have the power to increase (or decrease) their own salaries.
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Amendment XXVII. 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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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. U.S. Const. amend. XXVII.
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Twenty-Seventh Amendment Congressional Compensation No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.
27th Amendment - Definition, Examples, Cases, Processes - Legal …
2017年5月26日 · The 27th Amendment is the amendment to the United States Constitution that concerns changes in the rate of pay for members of Congress. Specifically, the text of the amendment reads: “No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have ...
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