What is historically unusual about the Twenty-Seventh Amendment?
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Correct answer: It was ratified more than two centuries after it was first proposed
The Twenty-Seventh Amendment was proposed with the original Bill of Rights in 1789 but was not ratified until 1992. Its unusually long ratification history makes it distinctive among constitutional amendments.
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