Constitutional history -- United States; United States -- Politics and government; United States. Constitution. 18th Amendment
Calm and sound reasoning of Federalist, advocating the real
Constitution, contrasted with irrelevant personal abuse by those
supporting the imaginary new Constitution--Latter, because facts
and law make their Tory concept absurd, revive “impious doctrine
of Old World” that human beings were made for political
entities and governments--Senator Sheppard and his eloquent
claim that American citizens, like other machinery, must be
kept in good condition for their government owner--His “discovery”
that the states, political entities, made the Constitution
of America, the nation of men--Story of America (from May
29, 1787, to July, 1917) being a sealed book to him, he does
not know that our Constitution is both federal and national--Supreme
Court, in early days and in 1907, and Webster and
Lincoln tell him his mistake--Not knowing the decision of Gettysburg,
recorded at Appomattox, he chooses between Lord North
of 1775 and Calhoun and summons the latter to prove that the
American people did not make their Constitution and its grant of
enumerated power to interfere with their individual freedom--Jefferson,
Pendleton, Webster and many other Americans correct
Sheppard’s error of fact--As the American people of 1776
accomplished their successful Revolution against government,
may it not be the thought of Sheppard and other Tories that the
Eighteenth Amendment has been established by a successful revolution
of government against the people--Marshall again tells
us of the American day when the legal necessity “was felt and
acknowledged by all,” that every power to interfere with human
liberty must be derived from the people in their “conventions”--Acting
on the Congress proposal of 1917, governments of state
citizens command the American citizen and create a new government
power to interfere with his individual liberty--But no
statesman has yet told us how or when, prior to 1917, we became
“subjects.”
XIX. ARE WE CITIZENS? _Page 298_
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