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I was under the impresssion the first 10 amendaments were released with the constitution. They aren't actually "amending" it. Is that not the accepted viewpoi

• cbs 15y ago
  I was under the impresssion the first 10 amendaments were released with the constitution. The bill of rights was ratified more than three years after the constitution itself was ratified.
• sp332 15y ago
  The Bill of Rights was proposed as part of the original constitution but was left out as a compromise. Most of the opponents weren't against the rights, on the contrary they thought the bill would be redundant and unnecessary. When it was clear that the rights would be presented as amendments to the original constitution, James Madison broke them up into 12 individual amendments. Only 10 were passed, several years later. An 11th was ratified in 1992, 203 years after it was proposed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_th... The 12th (which was actually the "first") has never been ratified. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_the_First https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_the_First