The reason I call it academic is this: > The proposed congressional pay amendment was largely forgotten until 1982, when Gregory Watson, a 19-year-old sophomor

The reason I call it academic is this: > The proposed congressional pay amendment was largely forgotten until 1982, when Gregory Watson, a 19-year-old sophomore at the University of Texas at Austin, wrote a paper for a government class in which he claimed that the amendment could still be ratified. He later launched a nationwide campaign to complete its ratification.[2][3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Historical_background https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_...