I was doing some research for a longer post, and ran across a
Constitutional amendment that I did not know even existed. I had
thought the 26th Amendment lowering the voting age to 18 was the
most recent, but there is one more. It was ratified in 1992.
Anyone know what it is? Answer below the fold Here is the 27th
amendment: No law, varying the compensation for the services of
the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an
election of Representatives shall It resulted from another piece
of history I never knew -- that there were actually 12 proposed
amendments in the original Bill of Rights, not 10. The states,
at least until 1992, had only approved 10 of the 12. In the
early days of writing such amendments, no time limit for getting
a sufficient number of state approvals for passage was set.
Thus, an amendment proposed in 1789 was finally passed in 1992.
The whole story is here. More recent amendments all include time
limits for passage (which is why the ERA expired, unpassed.