Thursday, June 5, 2014

Original 17 Amendments

Art. 16. The powers delegated by the constitution to the government of the United States, shall be exercised as therein appropriated, so that the legislative shall never exercise the powers vested in the executive or judicial; nor the executive the powers vested in the legislative or judicial; nor the judicial the powers vested in the legislative or executive.

[Dropped in the second draft.] / While this was dropped, the sense of it is inclusive in the 10th Amendment. This was common to the original 17 Amendments. The 3rd became part of the 1st; the 4th became part of the 1st; the 6th became part of the 3rd; the 7th became part of the 4th; the 8th became part of the 5th; the 9th became part of the 6th; the 10th became parts of the 5th and 6th; the modified 11th became the 7th; the 12th became part of the 7th; the 13th was ratified as the 8th, Art. 14. [Dropped in the second draft. Modified version passed by Congress on June 13, 1866; ratified July 9, 1868 as part of the fourteenth Amendment]; the 15th was ratified as the 9th; the 17th [Modified version is Twelfth Amendment in second draft: ratified as the Tenth Amendment]. Thus, all of Madison's 17 Amendments were ratified in some form, only two of which, occurred after the adoption of the Bill of Rights--the 2nd and the 14th.

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