27th amendment help please?

Question

Are sentors and representatives allowed to get re-elected? 27th amendment.

im doing a project 4 a PES (political and economics class) SOPHOMORE in highschool

I kno what it mean........ i just wanted to kno if they can or have ever been re elected

Answer 1

U.S. Constitution: Twenty-Seventh Amendment
Twenty-Seventh Amendment - Congressional Pay Limitation

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


Annotations

Regulating Congressional Pay

Referred to the state legislatures at the same time as those proposals that eventually became the Bill of Rights, the congressional pay amendment had long been assumed to be dead. This provision had its genesis, as did several others of the first amendments, in the petitions of the States ratifying the Constitution. It, however, was ratified by only six States (out of the eleven needed), and it was rejected by five States. Aside from the idiosyncratic action of the Ohio legislature in 1873, which ratified the proposal in protest of a controversial pay increase adopted by Congress, the pay limitation provision lay dormant until the 1980s. Then, an aide to a Texas legislator discovered the proposal and began a crusade that culminated some ten years later in its proclaimed ratification.


Now that the provision is apparently a part of the Constitution, it will likely play a minor role. What it commands was already statutorily prescribed, and, at most, it may have implications for automatic cost-of-living increases in pay for Members of Congress.

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Answer 2

The 27th Amendment has to do with the compensation of Senators and Representatives. Any pay raise is not effective until after the next election.

Answer 3

Senators and representatives do not have term limits. They can be re-elected over and over again. Senators' terms are 6 years while representatives' are 2. One of the cons of electing representatives every 2 years is the fact that once elected, they immediately begin campaigning for their re-election bid which many times makes their legislating in the house secondary.

Answer 4

Gee, no - not one senator or representative in Congress today was ever there before their most recent election. Kennedy and McCain were forced out of the Senate decades ago because they weren't allowed to run for re-election. Pelosi became Speaker because Dennis Hastert had to go home to Illinois.

WTF sort of school do you go to?

Answer 5

Since your a high school student and doing a project on the 27th amendment, I think your first thing you should have done is read the 27th. Once you read it you could discuss rather they should have ever put in an amendment to allow themselves to give themselves raises.
This stems to corruption that when one can control their own pay they will abuse it.

Answer 6

It talks about the COLA or "Cost Of Living" adjustement.

Answer 7

yes, i believe that they can be....