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62 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 501 (1993-1994)
Is the Twenty--Seventh Amendment 200 Years Too Late

handle is hein.journals/gwlr62 and id is 517 raw text is: Is the Twenty-Seventh Amendment 200 Years Too Late? Stewart Dalzell* & Eric J. Beste** Table of Contents Introduction ................................................... 502 I. The Process of Constitutional Amendment ................ 507 A. The Constitution as Fundamental Law and Com pact ....... ................................... 507 B. Article V ............................................. 509 II. Timeliness of Ratification ................................. 513 A. Dillon v. Gloss and Its Progeny ........................ 514 B. Existence of a Time Limitation ...................... 521 1. Article V's Scales for Weighing the Will of the People ........................................... 521 2. Article V and Contract Law ....................... 523 3. Constitutional Coherence ........................ 526 III. Judicial Review and the Amendment Process .............. 529 A. Judicial Tradition of Constitutional Adjudication ..... 531 B. Political Questions ................................... 534 C. Judiciary versus Congress ............................ 537 IV. Judicial Implementation of the Reasonable-Time Requirement .............................................. 540 Conclusion .................................................... 543 * United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. B.S. 1965, University of Pennsylvania; J.D. 1969, University of Pennsylvania. Judge Dalzell would like to thank Ms. Robin Kershaw, Reference Librarian of the Library of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, for her patient assistance in helping to find the more obscure references in this Article. ** B.A. 1991, University of Pennsylvania;J.D. 1994, Northwestern University School of Law. Mr. Beste would like to thank Dean Robert Bennett and Mr. Robert Unikel for their early assistance on his part of this enterprise. April 1994 Vol. 62 No. 4

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