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To: Bill France who wrote (135476)	7/3/1999 11:49:00 PM
From: James Wamsley	Respond to of 176387

O.T. The information is to be had at www.jmu.edu and the two articles in question are: "After the first enumeration required by the first article of the Constitution, there shall be one Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall amount to one hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall be not less than one hundred Representatives, nor less than one Representative for every forty thousand persons, until the number of Representatives shall amount to two hundred; after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall not be less than two hundred Representatives, nor more than one Representative for every fifty thousand persons.'' and An article "forbidding an increase in Congressional pay until an election had intervened." According to the reference, these were the first two of twelve amendments offered by Madison. The second was finally adopted as the 27th amendment to the constitution in 1992. "Madison also proposed three restrictions on the states: 'No state shall violate the equal rights of conscience, or the freedom of the press, or the trial by jury in criminal cases.' It is interesting to speculate that Madison may have considered these three the most critical rights. These restrictions were not approved by Congress, and thus the Bill of Rights in its original intent was to restrict only the federal government. Eventually more extensive restrictions were imposed on the states by the 14th amendment and its interpretation by the Supreme Court." "Madison also proposed an explicit statement recognizing the separation of powers, although not using that phrase. This statement was not included in the Bill of Rights, and to this day the Constitution has no explicit mention of the separation of powers. Nonetheless, the separation of powers is held by all to be implicit in the Constitution, an interpretation butressed (sic) by Madison's discussions in the Federalist Papers." Thank you Bill, and thank you James for something to take my mind off the dullness of Dell's performance. JimW