Bill of Rights Transcript Text

On September 25, 1789, the First Congress of the United States proposed 12 amendments to the Constitution. The 1789 Joint Resolution of Congress proposing the amendments is on display in the Rotunda in the National Archives Museum. Ten of the proposed 12 amendments were ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures on December 15, 1791. The ratified Articles (Articles 3–12) constitute the first 10 amendments of the Constitution, or the U.S. Bill of Rights. In 1992, 203 years after it was proposed, Article 2 was ratified as the 27th Amendment to the Constitution. Transcription of the 1789 Joint Resolution of Congress Proposing 12 Amendments to the U.S. 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. Article the first... Article the second... Article the third... Article the fourth... Article the fifth... Article the sixth... Article the seventh... Article the eighth... Sam. The U.S. Related: