Note handwritten by Senator John Langdon showing the final wording on what would later become the first and sixth amendments to the Constitution, not dated

Note handwritten by Senator John Langdon showing the final wording on what would later become the first and sixth amendments to the Constitution, not dated

Since the states did not ratify the first two of the twelve amendments proposed by Congress, the third and eighth articles, shown here, once ratified, became the first and sixth amendments to the Constitution.