Primary sources include exhibits on the Continental Congress & Revolutionary War; U.S. & State Constitutions; Real Estate; Women’s History & Suffrage; Civil Rights & Black History; Space; War of 1812; Mexican, Civil, Spanish
Primary sources include exhibits on the Continental Congress & Revolutionary War; U.S. & State Constitutions; Real Estate; Women’s History & Suffrage; Civil Rights & Black History; Space; War of 1812; Mexican, Civil, Spanish, & World Wars; World Leaders; Article The First; U.S. Presidents & Hospitality.
RELEASE September 23, 2014 For
First Federal Bicameral Congress
sent the wrong 1st Amendment to the States for ratification.
On this, the 225-year
anniversary of framing, approving, and transmitting the Bill of Rights, author
and independent scholar Stanley Yavneh Klos has notified the Attorneys General
of 11 States that their legislatures may have ratified the wrong first amendment
to the United States Constitution.
the First, the first of 12 amendments approved by
the 1789 Congress on September 25th, 1789, remains the only article not
ratified by the States. Articles 3-12
were ratified as the Bill of Rights and Article
the Second was ratified in 1992 as the 27th Amendment.
According to Klos, “President George Washington transmitted
the wrong first amendment to the States in a 12 Amendment Congressional
resolution commonly known as the Bill of Rights – a document currently on display
at the National Archives. The September 25th, 1789, constitutional
amendment resolution passed by Congress, however, actually proposed the U.S.
Senate’s and not the House’s version of Article the First as the first
amendment to the US Constitution. George Washington was the Commander-in-Chief
and not President of the Republic under the Articles of Confederation, Pluto is
not a planet, and 11 States ratified the wrong first amendment to the United
September 22nd, 2014, Klos sent his resea