On that day the Committee of Style reported the seven Articles which we now know as our Constitution. The Madison amending Article, except that “the legislature of the U. S.” was called “the Congress,” was identical with that of September 10. As it is important that we Americans shall never be told anything about the record of September 10 or September 15, in relation to this Madison Fifth Article, which is not something that _is_ in the record, that we may be given no distorted version of what happened in that Convention about the only Article which ever mentioned state “legislatures” as makers of _some_ future Articles, we shall have again the pleasure of reading the entire record of September 15. Again we read it from the brief of the great “constitutional” lawyer of 1920 who argued on the assumption that this Article, worded by Madison, was intended to make us and did make us, the citizens of America, the subjects of an omnipotent government, composed mostly of the client governments whom he represented in the Court Room of 1920. This is his record of the full story of September 15 in relation to the Fifth Article of Madison, from which record this “constitutional” lawyer and his associates hope to derive--how we know not--some support for this belief and this argument. “Mr. Sherman expressed his fears that three fourths of the States might be brought to do things fatal to particular States, as abolishing them altogether or depriving them of their equality in the Senate. He thought it reasonable that the proviso in favor of the States importing slaves should be extended so as to provide that no State should be affected in its internal police, or deprived of its equality in the Senate. “Col. Mason thought the plan of amending the Constitution exceptionable and dangerous. As the proposing of amendments is in both the modes to depend, in the first immediately, and in the second, ultimately, on Congress, no amendments of the proper kind would ever be obtained by the people, if the government should become oppressive, as he verily believed would be the case. “Mr. Govr. Morris & Mr. Gerry moved to amend the article so as to require a Convention on application of two thirds of the Sts. “Mr. Madison did not see why Congress would not be as much bound to propose amendments applied for by two thirds of the States as to call a Convention on the like application. He saw no objection however against providing for a Convention for the purpose of amendments, except only that difficulties might arise as to the form, the quorum etc. which in Constitutional regulations ought to be as much as possible avoided. “The motion of Mr. Govr. Morris and Mr. Gerry was agreed to nem: con (see: the first part of the article as finally past)