On May 7, 1992, the State of Michigan ratified a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution, thereby fulfilling the terms of amending the document, adding it as 27th Amendment. The amendment had been written by James Madison. He had presented it as part of the original twelve amendments that became the ten making up the Bill of Rights. It bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a pay raise until after the next election, so that voters have a chance to decide whether those voting for the raise would remain in Congress to receive it.
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Consider that, while Madison was capturing the ideas of many his work on the Constitution, the unamended Constitution was principally his composition, the Bill of Rights was principally his composition, and the 27th Amendment was principally his composition. Thus, the US Constitution is a big document mostly written by him, another big document mostly written by him, a bunch of little documents written by others, and then a little document mostly written by him.