The Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution. The ratification process was revived by a student who got a 'C' grade on his political science paper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution http://www.npr.org/2017/05/05/526900818/the-bad-grade-that-changed-the-u-s-constitution
And the moral of the story ? Give your life devotonally to a campaign . I would not . Though I may , for goodness sakes , be devotional to ... guess what .
All that and in the end they still set their own salaries? Can see why it took so long to be ratified.