There are Vacancies in the House
On September 25, 1789 the Congress of the United States submitted 12 proposed amendments to the eleven states that existed at that time. North Carolina and Rhode Island were not eligible to vote for or against the ratification of these amendments because they were not yet ratified the Constitution,
The originally proposed amendment was ratified in 9 of the 11 states, but North Carolina and Rhode Island were allowed to vote on the amendment, which raised the bar from 8 of 11 to 10 of 13. If only the states that existed when the amendment was proposed were allowed to vote on its ratification, the amendment was lawfully ratified. If North Carolina and Rhode Island were not yet admitted to the Union, there vote on the ratification of the amendment was not lawful.
In order for the proposed amendments to be properly ratified eight of the eleven states would have been needed for them to be added to the Constitution.
- New Jersey: November 20, 1789
- Maryland: December 19, 1789
- South Carolina: January 19, 1790
- New Hampshire: January 25, 1790
- New York: February 24, 1790
- Pennsylvania: September 21, 1791 (after rejecting it on March 10, 1790)
- Virginia: November 3, 1791
Is three-fourths 75% of eleven is 8,25 states. Thomas Jefferson, who was the Secretary of State and the President George Washington both agreed the the fraction should be reduced to eight which was the nearest whole number.
The lower house of the Connecticut General Assembly approved the amendment along with ten others in October 1789, but the upper house of the Assembly deferred taking any action on the amendments until after the next election. In May 1790, following that election, the lower house rejected the amendment while approving the ten amendments that would become the Bill of Rights. The upper house then approved all 12 of the amendments, hindering Connecticut's ratification effort, as the two houses were subsequently unable to reconcile their divergent ratification resolutions.
The legislatures of the states of North Carolina, Rhode Island, Kentucky and Vermont voted to ratify the originally proposed First Amendment after eight states had already ratified it.
According to the 2020 census the population of the United States is 332.600,000 and the House of Representatives should have one representative for every 50,000 inhabitants.
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As I understand it, there were two conflicting versions of Amendment the first that were ratified. There fore, since this "error" Was discovered at "The last minute" there was no time to redo the entire twelve, so one and two were dropped and we then had ten bill of rights amendments. I do not know why amendment two was dropped, but two became the twenty seventh, 202 plus years later. ( about 1992) Now my question. Please tell me how the appropriations law of 1929 can be a law when Article Six states that any law which conflicts or supercedes the constitution is null and void? !>?!/ ?. Article six has been held up in court rullings several times over the last 200 years. So again, How is the Aproppriations law of 1929 not null and void?
The version of 'Amendment the first' , Passed by the House of Representatives
August 24, 1789 which would have been part of our Bill of Rights, Contained the phrase; "that there shall be no less than two hundred Representativess nor less than one Representative for every fifty thousand persons." The one sent for ratification changed one word "less" to the word "more" making the ratified version useless. Therefore like 'Amendment the second', which became the twenty seventh, 'Amendment the first' is now passed and ready to be ratified. So all you COS advocates, get out there , write letters and get this amendment ratified, since that is part the amendment process you guys promote.