Talk:Bill of rights/Archive 1

The link to the "twelfth" was pointing to the twelfth amendment to the US constitution, not the twelfth of the proposed bill of rights. So it was not pointing to the amendment that the text was refering to. The same problem existed with the "eleventh", which was pointing to the 11th amendment, not the 27th. I changed that one to point to the 27th, becuase that is the amendment that the text was refering to. If someone wants to create an article, or if the article actually exists, that contains the text of the proposed amendment that never passed, then we can add a link to that in this article.

Here is the unratified amendment from the first 12 bill of rights: "After the first enumeration required by the first Article of the Constitution, there shall be one Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall amount to one hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall be not less than one hundred Representatives, nor less than one Representative for every forty thousand persons, until the number of Representatives shall amount to two hundred; after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall not be less than two hundred Representatives, nor more than one Representative for every fifty thousand persons. "

Ah, I see. I'll create said article, in that case. -BD

Why wouldn't the unratified 12th work for the current population? The relevant section seems to be at the end, where we need to have more than two hundred, but no more than 1 Rep for every 50,000 people. This means we would have to have between 200 and 5400 Representatives, with the actual number decided by Congress. Now this doesn't actually get us much, but it would work. Verloren

Someone added an article about the British Bill of Rights in front of the article about the (much better known, I dare say, even outside the U.S.) American Bill of Rights. This was silly. :-) This person was very right to notice an ambiguity, but completely wrong in the solution: the solution was to make Bill of Rights a "pointer" page and create two new articles, one about the British Bill and one about the American Bill. --Larry Sanger

I started working on this page to clean up the links so this no longer has to be considered a disambiguation page. I got pulled into some copyediting along the way. By the way, I know my use of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights as an example of an 'aspirational' bill of rights steps awfully close to the NPOV line but I don't know of any better example. Until we have a better example, I really want to leave that one where it is. Rossami 17:42, 24 Oct 2003 (UTC)