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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.
When first proposed, it was ratified by only six states (out of eleven needed), and it was rejected by five states. Forgotten for decades, the proposed amendment lay comatose until the 1980s when a political aide 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. The validity of this ratification has been called into question.
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