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The First Twelve

Not all of the original amendments to the Constitution were hailed as key the new union.

On September 25, 1789, the U.S. Congress passed twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment (which was later enacted as the Twenty-​seventh Amendment), and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.

Centuries earlier on that date, in 1555, the Peace of Augsburg was signed in Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.

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