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United States Bill of Rights 1789 (2021 Edition)

Twelve articles of amendment to the Constitution, introduced in September 1789 by Congress.

Guided Research Tools

A guide to finding information in committee timelines, about particular documents, or about particular individuals

Help with searching

If you are looking for a particular phrase within the written texts considered by this negotiation, you can search for moments when this phrase was introduced for consideration or decided upon. This is often the most helpful starting-point for legal research.

Alternatively, you may wish to search the descriptions of each event within this negotiation. This will not search for phrases under consideration, but rather the text of the various minutes upon which this edition of the negotiation is based.

Committee view

You can view a list of all committee sessions or you can view committee sessions scheduled for the future.

To search the minutes of a particular committee it is easiest to use the committee visualization pages (from here you can further drill down to individual sessions)

The House of Representatives House: Committee of the Whole House: Committee of Eleven Joint: Committee for Enrolled Bills

House: Committee of Three The Senate Joint: Conference Committee House: Rules Committee

Joint: Conference Rules Committee House: Committee of Elections Senate: Rules Committee

If you already know the committee session and date you want, find it in the Full Record View Full Record or type the date into the search box below:

Document list view

You can discover the complete list of documents considered by the negotiation (and find where they were introduced) on The Convention Document Map.

If you are interested only in the documents as they appeared at the end of the negotiation (with any rejected documents removed), you can use the The Convention Current Document Library.