We see that these words end all possibility of dispute in two important respects where dispute would be certain if the CONSTITUTIONAL mode of procedure did not contain _our_ command that, when future “conventions” are asked for further grant of power to interfere with our individual freedom, the “Yes” of each convention shall count as one “Yes” and a “Yes” from three fourths of the “conventions” shall be both necessary and sufficient to make a new grant of _such_ power. And, as we dwell upon these amazingly important words, their presence in the Fifth Article compels a greater tribute to the men who wrote them than that demanded by the fact that this ends the possibility of the disputes we have mentioned. It grows upon us that these words are among the most important securities to individual liberty in the whole Constitution. With increasing admiration for the men at Philadelphia, we sit in those early “conventions” and recall how much Madison and his colleagues have just told us in _The Federalist_ about the danger to individual right from the tyranny of the citizens of a republic themselves, whether that tyranny is attempted by a majority or an aggressive minority of such citizens. We recall _The Federalist_, Number 51, and its forceful exposition of the merits of the proposed Constitution and its remarkable distribution of powers (powers _granted_ to the new government in the First Article, powers _left_ with each state over its own citizens and powers _retained_ by the American people themselves) as security for individual rights.