hello mr. 24th amendment.

[npor]

congressional pay

Passed by congress in sept 25, 1789, ratified may 7 1992 (yeah, wtf?)

anyway

No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, untill an election of Representatives shall have intervened.

so what protection does that amendment give us, the american people?

[ACC0RD22]

the protection that congress wont just vote a pay raise for themselves. Theoretically, it doesnt do much, because the pay raise would just happen anyways, but we could just elect a new group of congressman if that ever happened.

[deevergote]

It would be kinda crappy if Congress just said "Ok, we all make 200,000,000 a year now!"

[MadSpleen85]

I thought the 24th ammendment was:

Amendment XXIV
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.


Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Maybe Cornell University Law School is wrong though lol..

EDIT:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-...s_Constitution

http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Am24

AND

The 24th Amendment Ended the Poll Tax
January 23, 1964
Many Southern states adopted a poll tax in the late 1800s. This meant that even though the 15th Amendment gave former slaves the right to vote, many poor people, both blacks and whites, did not have enough money to vote.

At the ceremony in 1964 formalizing the 24th Amendment, President Lyndon Johnson noted that: "There can be no one too poor to vote." Thanks to the 24th Amendment, the right of all U.S. citizens to freely cast their votes has been secured.
Source

[minoreparations]

Why hasn't your thread-making power been taken away by now?

[MadSpleen85]

I think he meant the 27th Ammendment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-...s_Constitution

[npor]

Why hasn't your thread-making power been taken away by now?

no, eat shit.

I think he meant the 27th Ammendment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-...s_Constitution

damn. my text book is FUCKED up then. hahahahaaa.