In those important words of the Fifth Article, “in three fourths thereof” after the word “conventions,” we _now_ recognize the judicious mixture of the federal principle in our own command which controls our future CONSTITUTIONAL exercise of our exclusive ability to create new power to interfere with our individual freedom. These words do not challenge or disturb the legal American necessity that our American government must get any new power _of that kind_ from us ourselves, assembled in our “conventions.” _But_, with a practical wisdom never exceeded in framing the “constitution” of a self-governing nation, these words impose an amazingly effective check upon the existing ability of a majority or aggressive minority, in the republic which is America, to interfere with individual rights. These words do not attempt to destroy or alter that existing ability of the citizens of the new republic. On the contrary, these words recognize the existence of that ability. But, with the wisdom which means so much security to every individual right in America, these words make it impossible that such ability can be CONSTITUTIONALLY exercised unless a majority or an aggressive and organized minority, when seeking new government power to interfere with the individual freedom of the American citizen, obtain a majority support from the American citizens residing in every one of three fourths of the state in America. Leaving (just for a moment) the conventions of the old days, we of this generation realize with gratitude the check so provided. We understand now, as we never understood before, why the organized minority which demanded that government write the new Amendment into our Constitution was driven by this constitutional check to ignore the plain fact that the new Amendment can never validly be put into the Constitution (if we still are citizens and not subjects) unless a “Yes” from the “people” themselves, the “conventions” of the Fifth Article, is obtained from three fourths of those “conventions.” We realize that the organized minority in question must support their proposition on the concept that Madison and Hamilton, who introduced and seconded the Fifth Article at Philadelphia, intended that Article “to create a will in the community” (which is America) “independent” of the supreme will of the American people themselves, intended it to create that anomaly of a superior will to the supreme will and to make that superior will the will of the legislative governments of a fraction of the states. We refer that organized minority to the quoted words of Madison or Hamilton, referring to such creation of a will independent of the people themselves: “This, at best, is but a precarious security, because a power independent of the society may as well espouse the unjust views of the major, as the rightful interests of the minor party, and may possibly be turned against both parties. The second method [not the