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This Day in Legal History: Congress Proposes the Bill of Rights
On September 25, 1789, the First Congress agreed on twelve proposed amendments to the newly ratified Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. Ten of those twelve would be ratified by the states in December 1791, and we know them today as the Bill of Rights. It was the fulfillment of a promise—many states had ratified the Constitution only on the understanding that a bill of rights protecting individual liberties would swiftly follow.
The amendments are the beating heart of American individual liberty. The First…
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