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The Conventions of a Number of the States having, at the Time of their adopting the Conſtitution, expreſſed a Deſire, in Order to prevent miſconſtruction or abuſe of its Powers, that further declaratory and reſtrictive Clauſes ſhould be added: And as extending the Ground of public Confidence in the Government, will beſt inſure the beneficent ends of its Inſtitution—

RESOLVED, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houſes concurring, That the following articles be propoſed to Legiſlation of the ſeveral States, as amendments to the Conſtitution of the United States, all or any of which articles, when ratified by three fourths of the ſaid Legiſlatures, to be valid to all intents and purpoſes, as part of the ſaid Conſtitution—Viz.

Articles in addition to, and amendment of, the Conſtitution of the United States of America, propoſed by Congreſs, and ratified by the Legiſlatures of the ſeveral States, purſuant to the fifth Article of the original Conſtitution.

ARTICLE the FIRST.

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; to which number one Repreſentative ſhall be added for every ſubſequent increaſe of forty thouſand, until the Repreſentatives ſhall amount to two hundred, to which number one Repreſentative ſhall be added (illegible text)iv thouſand perſons.

ARTICLE the SECOND.

No law, varying the compenſation for the ſervices of the Senators and Repreſentatives, ſhall take effect, until an election of Repreſentatives ſhall have intervened.

ARTICLE the THIRD.

Congreſs ſhall make no law eſtabliſhing articles of faith, or a mode of worſhip, or prohibiting the free exerciſe of religion, or abridging the freedom of ſpeech, or of the preſs, or the right of the people peaceably to aſſemble, and to petition to the government for a redreſs of grievances.

ARTICLE the FOURTH.

A well regulated militia, being neceſſary to the ſecurity of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, ſhall not be infringed.

ARTICLE the FIFTH.

No ſoldier ſhall, in time of peace, be quartered in any houſe, without the conſent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be preſcribed by law.

ARTICLE the SIXTH.

The right of the people to be ſecure in their perſons, houſes, papers, and effects, againſt unreaſonable ſearches and ſeizures, ſhall not be violated, and no warrants ſhall iſſue, but upon probable cauſe, ſupported by oath or affirmation, and particularly deſcribing the place to be ſearched, and the perſons or things to be ſeized.