“When the Bill of Rights was drafted, James Madison proposed 19 amendments (the House sent 17 of them to the Senate, which were consolidated into the 12 amendments that went to the states). The first two, however, were not ratified immediately. The first amendment set “out a detailed formula for the number of House members, based on each decennial census,” writes Andrew Glass at Politico. “Scholars have calculated that had the amendment, which is still pending, been adopted, today’s House would have either 800 or 5000 representatives.” (It currently has 435.) The second amendment regulated Congressional compensation. That amendment was not ratified for another 203 years: Originally the second, it became the 27th amendment.”