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The original Bill of Rights, proposed in 1787, had TWELVE Amendments to the Constitution. The first two were not adopted by the Congress, or by the States.

These proposed amendments were:

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.

Article the second [Amendment XXVII - Ratified 1992] No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.

Interestingly enough, the original "second proposed amendment" was finally ratified in 1992 as the 27th Amendment. For the last century, proposed Constitutional amendments have generally contained a paragraph setting a time limit by which the amendment must be ratified, but the 27th Amendment contained no such language.

It's probably just as well that the first of these, specifying the number of representatives for the population, wasn't approved. With our 310 million population, a requirement for 50K people per representative would make a Congress with 6200 representatives. They'd have to have congressional meetings in football stadiums!

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