bill of rights

[fire400]

one of them:

to prevent members of the House from raising their own salaries until after an election had taken place.

why? this one doesn't make sense, someone plz explain

(The second was [attempted] to help protect against the House of Representatives from allowing its members from hoisting their own kind of pay, initial to when an actual election would take place)

real bill of rights: http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html

 

[So]

If you were allowed to vote for your own raise, wouldn't you? Congress essentially does that, so the idea is to at least give the public the opportunity to fire them all if they vote themselves an inappropriate raise. At least in theory, they are now voting for the NEXT congress to get a raise, not "themselves"

 

[j00fek]

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[fire400]

"All Legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives."
(Article I, Section 1, of the United States Constitution)

http://www.house.gov/house/Tying_it_all.shtml

 

[torpid]

Huh?

 

[fire400]

hello any1

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: fire400
hello any1

Quit beating a dead horse with a stick.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: fire400
one of them:

to prevent members of the House from raising their own salaries until after an election had taken place.

why? this one doesn't make sense, someone plz explain

(The second was [attempted] to help protect against the House of Representatives from allowing its members from hoisting their own kind of pay, initial to when an actual election would take place)

real bill of rights: http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html

an 11th amendment proposed as part of the bill of rights did pass, in 1992. it was sitting around for over 200 years.

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