More on State Ratification Records

I noted yesterday the poor coverage of state legislative debates on federal constitutional amendments. Couple of more thoughts on that point:

To some extent, there is a nationalist bias in the ratification sources after 1787. People focus on what was said in Congress. Of course, people also look at newspaper commentary and other sources. But the most state-centered source is generally missing.

The Twenty-First Amendment is a partial exception to my observation about the incompleteness of the state sources. The conventions that ratified Prohibition's repeal did generally keep transcripts. Indeed, this was an advantage of the convention method under Article V that I had overlooked until now. That wouldn't matter today, though, as all state legislatures comprehensively record their debates.

In any event, I'm still going to go through what there is to see what I can find.