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   [Proposed by Congress

        on March 23, 1971;

     declared ratified

          on July 1, 1971.]

 

   Section 1

 

   [EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD VOTE]

   The right of citizens

         of the United States,

       who are eighteen years

            of age or older,

     to vote

        shall not be denied

           or abridged

         by the United States

             or by any State

                on account of age.

   Section 2

 

   [Power To Enforce This Article]

   The Congress

       shall have power

          to enforce this article

              by appropriate legislation.

  AMENDMENT XXVII

   [Proposed by Congress

        on September 25, 1789;

     declared ratified

          on May 8, 1992.]

 

   [Congress Cannot Raise Its Own Pay]

   No law

       varying

           the compensation

         for the services

             of the Senators

                 and Representatives,

      shall take effect,

          until an election

               of representatives

             shall have intervened.