The Twenty-seventh Amendment (Amendment XXVII, also known as the Congressional Compensation Act of 1789) [1] to the United States Constitution states that any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of Congress may take effect only after the next election of the House of Representatives has occurred.

The following is a list of the 27 constitutional amendments. All of these amendments remain part of the U.S. Constitution, but the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) was effectively nullified by the 21st Amendment (Repeal of Prohibition).

1992年5月18日 · 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.

The original text of the Twenty-Seventh Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

Congress passed the Twenty-Seventh Amendment by a two-thirds vote of both Houses, in 1789, along with eleven other proposed constitutional amendments (the last ten of which were ratified by the states in 1791, becoming the Bill of Rights).

The Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution (Amendment XXVII) has to do with the salaries paid to members of the United States Congress. Congress is made of two "Houses," and the members of each House serve different terms (amounts of time in office).

27th Amendment: Denies any laws that vary the salaries of Congress members until the beginning of the next terms of office for Representatives.

2017年5月26日 · The 27th Amendment is the amendment to the United States Constitution that concerns changes in the rate of pay for members of Congress. Specifically, the text of the amendment reads: “No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have ...

2024年8月2日 · The 27th Amendment prohibits salary changes for members of Congress until after an election of representatives. To put it differently, senators and representatives have the power to increase (or decrease) their own salaries.

Twenty-Seventh Amendment Congressional Compensation No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.