Bill of Rights-Two Additional Amendments not Immediately Ratified by the States

I did not know that there were two proposed amendments to the Constitution which were not ratified by the states. "In fact, in the Bill of Rights presented to the states for ratification, the amendment was listed third. Amendments 1 and 2 were defeated and did not become part of the Constitution" (39). I wondered what Amendments 1 and 2 were, so I looked it up.

 

According to the United States House of Representatives' website, the first amendment that was not ratified by the states was an amendment affecting the number of representatives in the House. The second amendment that was not ratified by the states became the 27th amendment in 1992 and is supposed to prevent representatives from raising the salaries of representatives or senators during the time which they are in office. I am not that surprised that it took so long for the amendment to be ratified!