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Bad Grade Sends Student on Ten-Year Quest to Amend the Constitution

3/17/2017

 
Gregory Watson only got a C on his college paper arguing that a 200-year-old amendment was still alive and could be ratified.  But he didn’t give up. He started writing lawmakers and, ten years later, the 27th Amendment became the law of the land:

  • No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.

People say we need a ‘living, breathing Constitution’.  We have one. It’s been amended 27 times and the procedure for amending it is right there in the Constitution.

This story shows that every person in America has the power to bring about Constitutional change.   Gregory Watson didn’t think the amendment process was ‘too hard’, and he was right.

The best part: his old professor later changed his grade to an A+! KUOW-FM Seattle


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