Bill of Rights, 09/25/1789 - 09/25/1789

Level of Description:

• Item

Type(s) of Archival Materials:

• Textual Records

The creator compiled or maintained the series between:

1789 - 2008

This item documents the time period:

09/25/1789 - 09/25/1789

Other Title(s):

• 1 Stat. 97
• First Ten Amendments to U.S. Constitution

General Note(s):

• Articles 3 to 12, ratified December 15, 1791, by three-fourths of the State Legislatures, constitute the first ten amendments of the United States Constitution. Article 2 was finally ratified on May 7, 1992, as the twenty-seventh Amendment to the Constitution. Article 1 was never ratified.

Access Restriction(s):

• Unrestricted
  

Use Restriction(s):

• Unrestricted
  

Subjects Represented in the Archival Material(s):

• amendments
  
• Bill of Rights
  
• resolutions
  

This item is the enrolled original joint resolution of Congress, engrossed on parchment, proposing 12 amendments to the United States Constitution. The Federal Government's official copy of the resolution is signed by Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and John Adams, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate.

ARC Identifier:

1408042

HMS/MLR Entry Number:

A-1 2

Inventory Entry Number:

PI-159 2

Other Identifier:

00306
This is the number assigned in the Rediscovery database.

Copy 1:

Preservation

Contact(s):

• Archives I Reference Section, Textual Archives Services Division (NWCT1R), National Archives Building
  7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW
  Washington, DC 20408
  Phone: 202-357-5385
  Fax: 202-357-5936
  Email: Archives1reference@nara.gov

Copy 1 Media Information:

• Specific Media Type: Parchment