[Publius]

Our founding fathers didn't put that in the original because they couldn't think in terms of elected officials staging raids on the taxpayers funds to the extent that they do today.

Mr. Boortz is an ignoramus. The 27th Amendment was one of 12 amendments proposed by Madison immediately after ratification of the Constitution. Ten of those amendments made it into the Constitution immediately, and we know them as the Bill of Rights.

One of those original 12 gathered state ratifications slowly over time. Generations would go by without a new ratification, then someone would notice the amendment and push a state to ratify. In the Eighties, a Texas state legislator noticed it and helped push it over the three-fourths limit in 1992. That was the 27th Amendment, and it took over 200 years to ratify.

Neil should do his homework.

[tnlibertarian]

The 27th Amendment was one of 12 amendments proposed by Madison immediately after ratification of the Constitution. Ten of those amendments made it into the Constitution immediately, and we know them as the Bill of Rights.

Just curious and too lazy to find it myself, but what was the twelfth?