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Background History
On September 29, 1789, Congress transmitted to the state legislatures
twelve proposed amendments, two of which, having to do with
Congressional representation and Congressional pay, were not
adopted. The remaining ten amendments become the Bill of
Rights. The amendment concerning Congressional pay was ratified on
May 7, 1992, becoming the Twenty-Seventh Amendment to the Constitution.
The first ten Amendments (The Bill of Rights) were ratified effective
December 15, 1791
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CONGRESS OF THE UNITED
STATES
begun and held at the City of New York,
on Wednesday the fourth of March,
one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine
THE Conventions of a number of States, having at the
time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to
prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory
and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground
of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficient
ends of its institution:
RESOLVED by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United
States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses
concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures
of the several States, as Amendments to the Constitution of the United
States, all or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of
the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as of
the said Constitution; viz..
ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United
States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the
Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the
original Constitution. . . .
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States and President of the
Senate.
ATTEST,
JOHN BECKLEY, Clerk of the House of Representatives.
SAM A. OTIS Secretary of the Senate.
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