United States Bill of Rights: Timeline

1789   The United States Congress United States Congress

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 proposes a set of twelve amendments for ratification by the states. Ratification for ten of these proposals is completed on December 5, 1791, creating the United States Bill of Rights. An additional proposal is ratified more than two centuries later in 1992.

1789   New Jersey New Jersey

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 ratifies the United States Bill of Rights, the first state U.S. state

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 to do so.

1791   Ratification by the states of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution United States Constitution

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 is completed, creating the United States Bill of Rights. Two additional amendments remain pending, and one of these is finally ratified in 1992, becoming the Twenty-seventh Amendment.

1792   Kentucky Kentucky

The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a U.S. state [i] located in the Southern [i] United States [i] ... 

 is admitted as the 15th U.S. state U.S. state

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 and as one of its first orders of business ratifies all twelve articles of the Bill of Rights United States Bill of Rights

In the United States [i], the Bill of Rights is the term for the first ten amendments [i] ... 

, including one that is technically still pending for consideration.