::::Sorry, but you've merely re-stated your assertions.  Your first sentence claims that "11 of the then 14 states" ratified, which effectively just repeats the assertion that it's the number of states at the time of ratification that counts.  You've provided no source for that assertion at all.  You then assert that the 1939 ratifications were "symbolic acts".  Which, of course, was probably the story they put out in 1939.  You cannot explain why those specific three 1939 ratifications included ONLY and ALL of the states which had been states at the time of Congress' proposal of what has come to be known as the 27th amendment.  Whereas, my assertion (that it's the number of ratifications of states were states at the time of Congress' vote) is consistent with the idea that it was discovered in 1939 that there was a vote missing, and that's why those three states (and only those three states) which occurred in 1939:  None occurred after 1939, and none between 1795 and prior to 1939.  I will check your cite, but I think the facts are clear.  The meaning of those 1939 votes can be misrepresented, but their existence does not lie.