Senate Revisions to House Proposed Amendments to the U.S. Constitution (page 2)

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Title: Senate Revisions to House Proposed Amendments to the U.S. Constitution (page 2)
Description: This annotated page, which lists the House of Representatives’ initial seventeen amendments to the U.S. Constitution, depicts the drafting process undertaken by the U.S. Senate in September 1789. It was the political tensions between opposing groups in the newly created American governmental body—the North and the South, the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists—that led to the creation of a Bill of Rights that, after the Senate's review, comprised twelve amendments to the Constitution. James Madison's draft of the Second Amendment (seen here as Article the Fifth) addressed concerns from Anti-Federalist Patrick Henry and other Southerners, who, remembering the role of the Southern militias in squashing slave revolts in the colonies, feared that the new federal government would prohibit armed white citizens from protecting and enforcing the slave system. On December 15, 1791, the Second Amendment was ratified by the states in its final form.
Creator: United States Senate See all items with this value
Publisher: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Date: September 9, 1789 See all items with this value
Type: Textual record
Format: Paper
Language: English
Identifier: National Archives Identifier: 3535588
Local Identifier: Sen 1A-C2
ARC Identifier: 3535588
Subject: United States Congress; United States Constitution; James Madison; Second Amendment; gun laws; early America See all items with this value
Temporal Coverage: 1789
Rights Holder: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Rights: This item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States.

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