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Add new Web site: William and Mary Law School Scholarship Repository - The Proposed Twenty-Seventh Amendment: A Brief, Supportive Comment. Dec 03, 2024
Add new Web site: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum - Constitutional Amendments – Amendment 27 – “Financial Compensation for the Congress”. Jun 04, 2024
Add new Web site: CORE - What Do You Think About the Twenty-Seventh Amendment? Mar 22, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Minnesota Libraries - Digital Conservancy - On the purported Twenty- Seventh Amendment. Dec 01, 2023
Add new Web site: Constitution Annotated - Twenty-Seventh Amendment. Jul 27, 2023
Add new Web site: National Constitution Center - 27th Amendment - Congressional Compensation. Oct 12, 2022
Add new Web site: United States Government Printing Office - Twenty-seventh Amendment. Oct 03, 2012
Add new Web site: Cornell University Law School - Twenty-Seventh Amendment. Sep 27, 2012
New article added. Sep 23, 2010
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