Twenty-seventh Amendment 中文 美国宪法第二十七条修正案 解释 〈美〉 该修正案是美国宪法上的一件奇事。它早在1789年就作为原《权利法案》十二条款中的第二条被提出,但却在203年之后的1992年才得到3/4州的批准。它规定国会议员不能自己投票决定提高自己的工资〔pay raise〕,而只能决定增加后任国会众议员和参...
The ratification process of the Twenty-seventh Amendment was by far the longest-running amendment effort in the history of the United States. Before the Twenty-seventh Amendment was ratified, the longest it had taken to ratify an amendment was four years. That measure, theTwenty-Second Amendment...
The Twenty-Seventh Amendment: Meaning and ApplicationThe Twenty-Seventh Amendment sparks more debates than its simple text suggests it should, and few courts or scholars have spent much time parsing its text to heCanaparo, GianCarloLarkin, Paul J.Social Science Electronic Publishing...
The Twenty-Seventh Amendment: A Late Bloomer or a Dead HorseJoAnne D. Spotts
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What Do You Think About the Twenty-Seventh Amendment?Twenty-Seventh Amendment"What do you think about the twenty-seventh amendment," I asked my aching head just last week.William W. Van AlstyneUniversity of Minnesota Law Schoolsocial science electronic publishing...
Congress and the Constitution: The Twenty-seventh Amendment and the Past and Future of Constitutional AlterationAlthough news coverage of election contests emphasizes horserace elements, these stories often contain information about issues and candidate platforms. A content analysis of newspaper articles ...
The Sleeper Wakes: The History and Legacy of the Twenty-Seventh Amendmentconstitutional lawOn May 7, 1992, the American people discovered that they had amended the Constitution almost in a fit of absent-mindedness. On that date, Michigan became the thSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
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. C
Commonly known as the Congressional Compensation Act of 1789, the Twenty-seventh Amendment was actually the second of 12 amendments proposed by the first Congress in 1789 (10 of these would be ratified and become the Bill of Rights). Absent a time period for ratification by the states, the ...