The Constitution of the United States: Amendment 27 (Twenty-Seventh Amendment)
Amendment XXVII. (Limiting Congressional Pay Increases)
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 27th Amendment Explained: The Constitution for Dummies Series
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- Pay and Perquisites of Members of Congress, Including A History of House and Senate Salaries
- Pocket Constitution
- Congressional Procedure, Chapter 1. E. Members of Congress
- The Constitution of the United States: Amendments 11-27, from The National Archives
- Twenty-seventh Amendment – CRS Annotated Constitution
- CRS Annotated Constitution, LII
- Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation, Govinfo.gov
- Heritage Guide to the Constitution
- Would Proposed Law Suspending Payment of Congressmen’s Salary Until They Produce a Budget Violate the 27th Amendment?, Volokh Conspiracy
- The Twenty-Seventh Amendment, Volokh Conspiracy
- On This Day in History: Political Science Student Succeeds in Amending the Constitution, Volokh Conspiracy
- Twenty-seventh Amendment – Wikipedia
- Twenty-seventh Amendment – Findlaw
- “Salaries of Members of Congress: Recent Actions and Historical Tables,” CRS Report 97-1011 (35-page PDF
) - Congressional Compensation – Heritage Guide to the Constitution
Grassley: No automatic pay raises for Congress
Congressman Mitchell Addresses the House about Stopping the Automatic Congressional 2011 Pay Raise
A free download of our Pocket Constitution is available on Scribd.
Our Pocket Constitution: details on our web site.
Rep. Kanjorski (D-PA) On Congressional Salary Increases
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