Twelve amendment articles proposed
- When
- September 25, 1789
- Where
- Federal Hall, New York City
On September 25, 1789, Congress approved twelve proposed constitutional articles guaranteeing individual rights and limiting federal power, sending them to the states.
On September 25, 1789, the Congress approved twelve proposed articles of amendment to the United States Constitution, intended to guarantee individual rights and establish limits on federal government power, and dispatched them to the state legislatures for ratification. Articles three through twelve were simultaneously ratified on December 15, 1791, becoming the Bill of Rights; one further amendment was ratified more than two centuries later as the Twenty-seventh Amendment.
Sources
- 1st United States Congress Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-28
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