Dear List Members: I am a professor at the University of Kentucky and am writing a book about James Madison and the Bill of Rights. Would you please help by answering the question below: During the debate in the First Congress over whether to insert the proposed amendments (what became the Bill of Rights) in the Constitution or list them at the end, Madison said this on August 13, 1789, in support of inserting the amendments: "the system will in that case be uniform and entire--nor is this an uncommon thing to be done..." I need to know if amendments to state constitutions were inserted in the body of those document or only at the end, or if there is some other precedent that would explain Madison's statement. I also need to know a citation for this. I know from Schwartz's five-volume series on the Bill of Rights that of the 12 states that adopted constitutions during the founding period, eight followed the Virginia model with a separate list of rights, while four inserted them into their constitutions. But I still need to know if after the original state constitutions were written, and up until Madison made that statement in 1789, were there subsequent amendments? And if so, where were those amendments placed? Thanks in advance for answering this question. You can reply to me directly if you want: [log in to unmask] This book, "James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights," will be published in July by Oxford University Press in its "Pivotal Moments in American History" series: www.oup.com/usa Richard Labunski Richard Labunski School of Journalism and Telecommunications University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0042 Office: (859) 257-5719 Home fax: (859) 873-3557 Internship Web site: http://JATinternships.uky.edu To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html