Twelve articles of amendment to the Constitution, introduced in September 1789 by Congress.
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ARTICLE THE FIRST. [+e126863]
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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, [+e126863]to[+e126868]after[+e126863 -e126868] which[+e126863] num[+e126868], the proportion shall [+e126863 -e126868]be[+e126863]r[+e126868] [+e126863]s[+e126863 -e126868]o[+e126863]ne[+e126868] re[+e126863]presentativ[+e126868]gulated by Congress, that ther[+e126863 -e126868]e shall be [+e126863]added for every subsequent inc[+e126868]not less than one hundred Representatives, nor less than one Rep[+e126863 -e126868]re[+e126863]a[+e126868]se[+e126863]ntative[+e126863 -e126868] [+e126863]o[+e126868]f[+e126863]or every[+e126863 -e126868] forty thousand[+e126863] persons[+e126863 -e126868], until the [+e126863]nu[+e126863 -e126868]ARTICLE THE SECOND. [+e126873]
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No law varying the compensation [+e126873]for[+e126874]to[+e126873 -e126874] the [+e126873]service of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States[+e126874]members to Congress,[+e126873 -e126874] shall take effect, until an election of Representatives [+e126873] [+e126877]
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ARTICLE THE THIRD. [+e126877]
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Congress shall [+e126877]not [+e126885]make [+e126877]any[+e126885]no[+e126877 -e126885] law [+e126877]infring[+e126885]establish[+e126877 -e126885]ing [+e126877]th[+e126885]on[+e126878 -e126885]e [+e126878]r[+e126877]el[+e126877 -e126885]ig[+e126877]hts of cons[+e126885]io[+e126877 -e126885]us sect[+e126878 -e126885]n, or [+e126877 -e126885]soc[+e126878]iety in prefe[+e126878 -e126885]ren[+e126878]c[+e126878 -e126885]prohibiti[+e126877 -e126885]ng[+e126877 -e126878] [+e126877 -e126885]the[+e126877 -e126878]establishing any[+e126885] free exe[+e126877 -e126885]rc[+e126877 -e126878]el[+e126885]is[+e126877 -e126878]ious sect or society[+e126885]e [+e126877 -e126885]to o[+e126878 -e126885]ther[+e126877 -e126885]s[+e126878 -e126885]eof, nor shall the [+e126877 -e126885]rights of Conscience be infringed.[+e126877] [+e126877 -e126878]
shall have intervened.[+e126873]mb[+e126863 -e126874]e[+e126863 -e126868]r[+e126863] of R[+e126863 -e126868]epresentatives shall amount to two hundred, [+e126863]to[+e126868]after[+e126863 -e126868] which [+e126863]one representativ[+e126868]the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that ther[+e126863 -e126868]e shall [+e126863]not [+e126863 -e126868]be [+e126863]added for every subsequent inc[+e126868]less than two hundred Representatives, nor less than one Rep[+e126863 -e126868]re[+e126863]a[+e126868]se[+e126863] of six[+e126868]ntative for every fif[+e126863 -e126868]ty thousand persons. [+e126863]
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