Amendment XXVII

Amendment XXVII

Amendment XXVII

Amendment XXVII

Constitution of the United States of America

Article. [XXVII.]

[Proposed 1789; Ratified 1992; Second of twelve Articles comprising the Bill of Rights]

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


Notes:

1. The title was not a part of the original document. It was added when the document was printed.

2. Our scanned images show this as a semi-colon, but an image at a historic congressional site shows a comma.

3. In the Congressional Statutes at Large, Vol. 1, Page 97, at , Memory Government. the first and third commas are omitted, so that it reads:

A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.

The question remains open of where those additional, and grammatically spurious, commas came from, but they do not change the legal meaning of the provision, and it would not be erroneous to omit them.


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