Finally, the twenty seventh amendment to the United States Constitution prevents Congress from giving themselves a pay raise, which is good, cause how weird would it be if you could just give yourself a raise whenever you wanted? This prevents lawmakers from being greedy and siphoning too much of the federal budget into their own pockets through their paychecks and also helps to allow for some ecumenic equality amongst senators and representatives.
When the final amendment was ratified, the country had been recovering from some economic hardships. After the passing of this amendment, the country continued to go through economic turmoil, which would have erupted into outrage had congressmen and congresswomen still been allowed to give themselves a raise.
This picture helps to further that point, illustrating that sometimes Congress can meet and follow all of their rules and still not accomplish much. That would not seem raise worthy to many people, so therefore they should not be allowed to give themselves more money for doing less work.
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