state governments, certainly it was an absurdity for him to refer to those governments as “weakened, prostrated, enervated” by the proposed Constitution. And so, educated in the experience of those Americans who assembled in those “conventions” named in the Seventh and Fifth Articles, we sit with them in the conventions of that earlier day and read that Fifth Article with them, while they decide to make it with the six other Articles. Living through their experience, like them we have become “a people better acquainted with the science of government than any other people in the world,” so far as government is intended to secure _individual_ liberty and happiness. When we sit with them, we intend not to forget, as they never did forget in those conventions, that this was the sole purpose of the Constitution they considered and made, the purpose of securing _individual_ liberty and happiness. In this respect, they differed in their whole philosophy of government with the new school of thought that, in our day, has its different manifestations of exactly the same philosophy of government on the part of the Bolshevik in Russia and the minority in America which has dictated that government enactment of the new constitution of government, known as the Eighteenth Amendment. The Americans of ’76 and ’87 set the individual liberty and freedom of man above everything in this world except the Divine Will of the Creator of man. In the Preamble of their Constitution, they echo the declarations of their Statute of ’76. Their creed was that the laws of right and wrong are immutable; that the Creator made the individual man and granted human freedom to him; that such freedom is inherently subject only to the Divine Will, the immutable law of right and wrong, but that it may voluntarily become subject, by the will of the individual man, to the exercise of powers of interference which only he and his fellow men themselves can ever validly grant to government. “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.” (Madison or Hamilton, _Fed._ No. 51.)