And, as already noted (post #39), the Bill of Rights acknowledges -- implicitly and offhandedly, because Madison was not in favor of it -- that the promise of a Declaration of Rights was promised sub rosa to a number of States, including the most important: Virginia. Absent the promise, he would almost certainly have LOST his congressional election the anti-Federalist Monroe.
Keep blowing smoke if you wish. It will do no good.
VA thought it was the ninth to ratify, it was not. That honor was assumed by NH.
Despite Henry’s desires, no state made ratification of amendments a precondition to joining the Union.