Amendment Twenty Seven and It's Meaning

Amendment Twenty Seven

"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 took the longest to be ratified since it got proposed. It took 20 years for it to be ratified by the states. The 27th was ratified finally in 1992, it deals with pay raises and decreases for Congress and it's members. It states that Congress cannot give itself a pay raise and if it was to make changes in the pay it would not take effect until after another election happens (it cannot take effect until the next term).
My opinions on this amendment are up and down. I do agree that they shouldn't be able to give themselves a pay raise, but then again, who even controls that when they ARE the government? I just think its good that they at least acknowledged the fact and have made it an amendment to clarify how their pay works.

This is just a quick recap on the amendment and how it was finally passed. It clarified for me that they could not get a pay raise until the next term came into office so I chose it because it helped me better understand. I do think he got the date wrong at the beginning, he said it was passed in 1997, but I believe it was 1992. Anyways, I enjoyed his awkwardness and also the fact that he cleared up a few things for me.

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I chose it because it does kind of scare me that they can just propose to give themselves a raise for the next term they serve. But then again, if I don't think they deserve that raise I can just use my right to vote and hopefully get them out of office for a second term!! I don't know the entire context of this picture as I do not know who Mike is, but I just like the words he is saying as it puts things into a different perspective.