No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.
This was one of the twelve originally proposed amendments in 1789, ten of which became the United States Bill of Rights, and the other Unratified Amendment Twelve.
In the period from 1789 to 1791, it was ratified by only six states out of eleven needed. In 1873, Ohio lawmakers saw fit to ratify it. Forgotten for decades, the proposed amendment lay comatose until the 1980s when an employee in the Texas Legislature rediscovered the proposal. The push for ratification began in earnest, and it officially joined the Constitution on May 7, 1992 when Michigan became the 38th state to ratify it.
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26th Amendment
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United States Constitution