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To: Publius
The 27th Amendment was one of 12 amendments proposed by Madison immediately after ratification of the Constitution. Ten of those amendments made it into the Constitution immediately, and we know them as the Bill of Rights.

Just curious and too lazy to find it myself, but what was the twelfth?

36 posted on 02/25/2004 1:38:24 PM PST by tnlibertarian
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To: tnlibertarian
Just curious and too lazy to find it myself, but what was the twelfth?

Article the first (Not Ratified) After the first enumeration required by the first article of the Constitution, there shall be one Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall amount to one hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall be not less than one hundred Representatives, nor less than one Representative for every forty thousand persons, until the number of Representatives shall amount to two hundred; after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall not be less than two hundred Representatives, nor more than one Representative for every fifty thousand persons.

48 posted on 02/26/2004 11:12:24 AM PST by Sloth (We cannot defeat foreign enemies of the Constitution if we yield to the domestic ones.)
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