For these reasons, if the supporters of the Eighteenth Amendment expect us, now educated with those earlier Americans up to and including the record of September 10, 1787, to believe that the Madison Fifth Article, first worded on that day, purported to grant or was understood and intended by Madison and his colleagues to grant any power to the state legislative governments _in_ America over ourselves, the citizens of America, we shall hereafter listen, with naught but amusement, to these amateur “constitutional” thinkers and their effort to change legal fact into fiction by assumption. Confirmed by our education with Madison and the others who had all to do with the wording and the making of that Fifth Article of September 10, 1787, we recognize, even if these “constitutional” thinkers do not recognize, that we ourselves are the “conventions” of the Fifth Article in which sit the American people to exercise their exclusive ability to grant to government any power to interfere with their individual freedom. We have now, even if these “constitutional” thinkers never have had, the knowledge of the legal necessity that power _of that kind_ must be derived from ourselves, the “people” of the Tenth Amendment and the “conventions” of the Seventh and the Fifth Articles--the necessity in 1787 “felt and acknowledged by all.” We know, as Marshall knew in one of those “conventions” of 1788 and as he knew and stated on the Bench of the Supreme Court, that there is but one way in which we, the citizens of America, can act safely or _effectively_ or wisely on the subject of new interference with our individual freedom, by assembling in our “conventions,” the “conventions” of the Fifth as well as the Seventh Article. And so, with our knowledge and certainty that the Madison Fifth Article of September 10 never could change the status of the free American into that of the subject of an omnipotent government, we come to the last business day of the Philadelphia Convention, September 15, the only other day on which the Madison Fifth Article, with its _mention_ of legislative ability to make _federal_ Articles but not _national_ Articles, was ever considered at Philadelphia.