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On September 25, 1789, the First Congress of the United States proposed 12
amendments to the Constitution. The 1789 Joint Resolution of Congress proposing the
amendments is on display in the Rotunda in the National Archives Museum. Ten of the
proposed 12 amendments were ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures on
December 15, 1791. The ratified Articles (Articles 3–12) constitute the first 10
amendments of the Constitution, or the U.S. Bill of Rights. In 1992, 203 years after it was
proposed, Article 2 was ratified as the 27th Amendment to the Constitution. Article 1
was never ratified.