Maybe the first two were not ratified because they decribed our rights to summarily tar and feather politicians if they were crooked, or even worse, violated their oaths of office.
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The first one would have modified article five on the apportionment of reps to ensure a minimum of 100 reps until the population grew large enough to need more and specified the number of citizens represented.
The second eventually was ratified as the 27th amendment.
We do actually need a variation on the first so as to put a cap on the number of people one representative can have. Congress on their own decided in 1913 to cap the number of representatives at 435. This caused reps to go from 50000 citizens per to around 500,000-800,000 today. A dilution of actual representation.