From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Newsgroups: misc.legal
Subject: Re: 27th amendment
Date: 12 Oct 92 07:01:28 GMT
Reply-To: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation

In article <1992Oct9.205444.19096@cbnews.cb.att.com>, ask@cbnews.cb.att.com 
(Arthur S. Kamlet) writes:
> I have an on-line copy of the US Constitution and  would like to
> update it with the 27th amendment.
> 
> The text is
> 
> No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and
> Representatives shall take effect, until an election of Representatives
> shall have intervened.
> 
> 
> The amendment was proposed March 4, 1989.
> 
> When was it proclaimed? (Adopted)

I think you mean 1789, not 1989.  Anyways, it became part of the Constitution 
when it was officially certified by the US Archivist, who published the 
acceptance notice in the Federal Register on May 19, 1992 (Fed. Reg. Vol 56, 
p. 21187).  The notice also says that Congress _passed_ it on September 27, 
1789, but perhaps you're right that it was initially proposed on the floor in 
March.

Anyways, here's the Archivist's notice:

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U.S. Constitution Amendment 27
ARCHIVIST OF THE UNITED STATES UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

57 FR 21187

May 19, 1992


TEXT: CERTIFICATION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES 
RELATING TO COMPENSATION OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS


To All To Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greeting:


KNOW YE, That the first Congress of the United States, at its first session, 
held in New York, New York, on the twenty-fifth day of September, in the year 
one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, passed the following resolution 
to amend the Constitution of the United States of America, in the following 
words and figures in part, to wit:

The Conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their 
adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent 
misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and 
restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public 
confidence in the Government will best ensure the beneficent ends of its 
institution;

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of 
America in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the 
following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as 
Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all or any of which 
Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be 
valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution, viz.: 
Articles in addition to, and amendment of, the Constitution of the United 
States of America, proposed by Congress and ratified by the Legislatures of 
the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original 
Constitution.

* * * * * * *

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

* * * * * * *


And, further, that Section 106b, Title 1 of the United States Code provides 
that whenever official notice is received at the National  Archives  and 
Records Administration that any amendment proposed to the Constitution of the 
United States has been adopted, according to the provisions of the 
Constitution, the  Archivist  of the United States shall forthwith cause the 
amendment to be published, with his certificate, specifying the States by 
which the same may have been adopted, and that the same has become valid, to 
all intents and purposes, as a part of the Constitution of the United States.


And, further, that it appears from official documents on file in the National 
Archives  of the United States that the Amendment to the Constitution of the 
United States proposed as aforesaid has been ratified by the Legislatures of 
the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, 
Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, 
Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, 
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, 
Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, 
Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.


And, further, that the States whose Legislatures have so ratified the said 
proposed Amendment constitute the requisite three fourths of the whole number 
of States in the United States.


NOW, Therefore, be it known that I, Don W. Wilson,  Archivist  of the United 
States, by virtue and in pursuance of Section 106b, Title 1 of the United 
States Code, do hereby certify that the aforesaid Amendment has become valid, 
to all intents and purposes, as a part of the Constitution of the United 
States.


IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the 
National  Archives  and Records Administration to be affixed.


DONE at the City of Washington this 18th day of May in the year of our Lord 
one thousand nine hundred and ninety-two.


DON W. WILSON


The foregoing was signed in my presence on this 18 day of May, 1992.


Martha L. Girard


[F.R. Doc. 92-11951 Filed 5-18-92; 12:14 pm]
   Billing code 7515-01
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Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
The opinions presented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
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