27th Amendment

Did you know this: The Twenty-seventh Amendment (Amendment XXVII) prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of Congress from taking effect until the start of the next set of terms of office for Representatives. It is the most recent amendment to the United States Constitution. It was submitted to the states for ratification in September 1789 and became part of the United States Constitution in May 1992, a record setting period of 202 years, 7 months and 12 days. / It was, in fact, the 11th Amendment proposed for ratification by James Madison but was not ratified. In fact, Madison initially proposed 17 Amendments, later trimmed to 12 by the Senate. The 10 Amendments were ratified fairly quickly. The 11th was ratified two centuries later.