Amendment XXVII

Amendment XXVII
“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 Twenty-Seventh Amendment prevents members of congress from raising their salaries during terms they served.

This is a necessary amendment in that it prevents Congress members from raising their salaries, but I’m sure members of Congress find loopholes that allow them to raise their salaries…I mean we all know that politicians aren’t the most honest and reliable people in the world!


While this video is a sub-par attempt to depict the 27th Amendment, it covers the basic intentions of the amendment. It displays three Congressmen attempting to come up with a scheme to raise their salaries, when one protests, warning that raising their salaries outside of an election was illegal according to the Constitution and they decide to wait until election. I included this video because it defined the amendment accurately.



This is a video of a negative ad against Republican Don Young, saying that he is a corrupt Congressman; it says that he has misused funds and accepted bribes and has been under investigation several times. Although this video does not directly related to Young attempting to raise his salary, it does talk about he may have possibly misused his power, which is the main problem with a Congressman raising his own salary. I included this video in order to display how politicians can find ways around gaining more money to put in their pockets with out violating the 27th Amendment. That is probably why Young was accused of some many other crimes (if the allegations are true). He still managed to run for office.