The Joint Resolution of 25 September 1789 entire: the preamble, the twelve articles Congress sent to the states, and the attestation. Ten were ratified on 15 December 1791 and are the first ten amendments; the second was ratified in 1992 as the twenty-seventh; the first never was. Transcribed from the enrolled original by the National Archives. A US government work, public domain.

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