Where can I find clear information regarding the 27th amendment in the Constitution of the United States?

Question

What was the historic reason the 27th amendment was enacted? What important judicial challenges have there been related to the 27th amendment?

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

Answer 2

AMENDMENT XXVII
Originally proposed Sept. 25, 1789. Ratified May 7, 1992.

No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of representatives shall have intervened.


The historicreason this that the Congress voted itself a large payraise in the middle of the night. I think it was Halloween. And theu wanted to make sure they could not vote them selves on that would take immediate effect.

A number of congressional leaders, including Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, and House Treasury-Postal Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., have recently spoken out in favor of pay hikes for Members of Congress. The last cost of living adjustment for House members was approved in 1992.

Congress last voted itself a substantial pay increase in the 1989 Government Pay and Ethics bill, which increased congressional salaries from $89,500 a year in 1989 to $125,100 a year in 1991. Since that time, cost of living adjustments have increased congressional salaries to $133,600.

http://www.house.gov/defazio/061887BURelease.shtml

Go here. I think it was the 1989 they passed it in the middle of the night and ajorned giving themselves a hefth payraise. In 1991 In 1991 rhey took a 25% pay raise and a 3 % COLA.

It was the following year the 27th Amendment was ratified though some questioned it's validity

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/pay/keystories.htm

27th Amendment
The 27th Amendment was originally proposed on September 25, 1789, as an article in the original Bill of Rights. It did not pass the required number of states with the articles we now know as the first ten amendments. It sat, unratified and with no expiration date, in constitutional limbo, for more than 80 years when Ohio ratified it to protest a congressional pay hike; no other states followed Ohio's lead, however. Again it languished, for more than 100 years.

In 1978, Wyoming ratified the amendment, but there was again, no follow-up by the remaining states. Then, in the early 1980's, Gregory Watson, an aide to a Texas legislator, took up the proposed amendment's cause. From 1983 to 1992, the requisite number of states ratified the amendment, and it was declared ratified on May 7, 1992 (74,003 days).

It was probably an Ohio Senator that started the progress as Ohio passed it to protest a raise.

Answer 3

Google or yahoo - The 27th amendment.

Answer 4

To stop the Representatives from raising their salaries before they took office. Several challenges have occurred. Look on law.cornell.com

Answer 5

Here you go....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

You can search on google or yahoo if you need more reading on this.. ;)

Answer 6

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment27/

Answer 7

Try the link...it might help.

Answer 8

do a search dummyhead