Talk:United States Bill of Rights

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The Bill of Rights may be read at the US National Archives Website.

[edit] ORDER

I believe that the amendments are out of order??? —unsigned comment by CaptainCookie (talk) .

• • The Bill of Rights as proposed and submitted to the states included 12 amendment, "Article the first" was never ratified Ratified and "Article the second" was ratified May 5, 1992--Lookatthis (talk) 02:39, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

• • Yes, but these amendments are not included in the Bill of Rights as studied by most American schoolchildren. Also, only the first ten are listed on the Wikipedia page. —unsigned comment by CaptainCookie (talk) .

I agree. If we wish to talk about how the amendments were introduced, we would include all 12. The actual Bill of Rights, however, is only the first ten Amendments. This is evidenced by the fact that the 27th Amendment, though part of the original list, is not considered part of the Bill of Rights despite its passage. Thus, I would suggest that this article be moved to whatever the title of the bill was and a new article containing just the 10 Amendments be created at United States Bill of Rights - an appropriate change considering that the other amendment articles contain the text of the amendments, not of the legislation proposing them. --Philosopher ^{Let us reason together.} 23:22, 18 December 2009 (UTC)