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Unadopted amendments to the Bill of Rights

September 06, 2019

The original draft of the Bill of Rights had 12 amendments, not 10! What were those unadopted amendments? In this video, Khan Academy host Kim Kutz Elliott discusses the unadopted amendments with scholar Fergus Bordewich.

The National Constitution Center and Khan Academy partnered to create a series of nonpartisan videos explaining the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and major Supreme Court cases, enlisting the expertise of Interactive Constitution scholars.

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