twenty seventh amendment

Twenty-seventh Amendment. The constitutional amendment, ratified in 1992, that prevents a pay raise for senators and representatives from taking effect until a new Congress convenes. • This amendment was proposed as part of the original Bill of Rights in 1789, but it took 203 years for the required three-fourths of the states to ratify it. — Also termed Madison Amendment. [Cases: United States 39(6). C.J.S. United States §§ 24, 61.]

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