At 14:10 -0400 7/26/00, Marcel Popescu wrote: >Some people on these lists seem to have a lot of opinions about various >ammendments... > >----- Original Message ----- >X-Loop: openpgp.net >From: "Breon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 1:09 PM >Subject: [Reality_Pump] Congress breaks another Constitutional Amendment? > > >> I have a question, the 27th Amendment (ratified 5/7/92) states: >> >> No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and >> Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of >Representatives shall have >> intervened. >> >> But if I'm not mistaken each year (since 89) Congress gives itself a pay >raise, that takes effect the next year. So aren't the breaching the 27th >Amendment? I believe your mistaken. And in any case, whenever they vote a pay raise it doesn't take effect until after the next congressional election. >> Has the Supreme Court ruled on this issue? I don't think It's ever come up, see above. -- Kevin "The Cubbie" Elliott <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ#23758827 _______________________________________________________________________________ "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air--however slight--lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." -- Justice William O. Douglas
