Well, I think that it could very well be yes, for the reason that in the 1790 statute the Congress specifically was aware of -- that there were State copyright laws which didn't last as long as the Federal statute. Several of the States hadn't finished enacting those copyright laws, and a couple of States hadn't enacted them at all.

Can we draw the following conclusion?
Several of the States were too incompetent to enact those copyright laws

Pick from:
 (1). Yes.
 (2). It's impossible to say.
 (3). No.
(2).