The 27th Amendment States that "No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened."
This was created to keep Congress from giving themselves a pay raise while in the term.
during when america was being founded they were separated from britian. Britian government did not like this and they had a war over it. France supplied funds and overall help to america against Britian
Buddhism—some Buddhism, anyway—is a practice of contemplation and inquiry that doesn't depend on belief in God or a soul or anything supernatural. Therefore, the theory goes, it can't be a religion.