Patrick Henry, opposing Constitution in the “conventions,” knows that it takes power from the state legislatures and gives them no power--All modern leaders “know” that it gives those legislatures great power as attorneys-in-fact for the citizens of America--Many modern leaders “know” that it makes those legislatures an omnipotent Parliament over the citizens of America--No modern leaders remember 1781 and 1787 existing ability of the state legislatures to make federal Articles or Articles not creating government power to interfere with human liberty--Common modern concept that Fifth Article is “grant” to these “legislatures” and to the very “conventions” which made the Fifth Article--Leading brief, against Amendment, more than fifty times admits or asserts this imaginary and remarkable “grant”--Some extraordinary concepts of our American institutions in briefs--In a famous opinion, Marshall explains a fact and on it bases the entire decision of the Supreme Court--The fact itself is that the Constitution granted no power of any kind to the state legislatures--No brief knows or urges this fact or any of the facts we learned in the “conventions,” the facts on which we base our challenge to the Eighteenth Amendment concept that we are “subjects”--Briefs for the Amendment examined to find out why we are supposed to be “subjects”--Amazing claim that, when governments alone change the national part of the Constitution, Supreme Court has no power even to consider whether governments in America can make a change in the enumerated powers given to their own government by the citizens of America--Remarkable Tory concept that the number of Senators from each state is the only thing in America immune from government invasion, if enough governments combine--Indignation of American citizen changes to mirth when he realizes this concept to be only basis of thought that he is a “subject” or that there is an Eighteenth Amendment--American citizen, seeking to find (in the briefs for the Amendment) what happened, between 1907 and 1917, to make him a “subject,” startled to hear the answer, “Nothing”--Citizen’s amusement increased on learning, in same briefs, that whole American people, in Constitution which expressly declares it gives no power to state governments, made those governments of state citizens irrevocable and omnipotent attorneys-in-fact for the citizens of America--Amusement increased by finding that main champion of Tory concept quotes Marshall’s Supreme Court story of the making of the Constitution, but omits, from the quotation, the paragraph in which Marshall points out that everyone knew why the “legislatures” could not make and only the “conventions” could make the national First Article, with its grant of enumerated power to interfere with human liberty--Curiosity added to mirth on finding this brief echo Madison’s own knowledge that his Fifth Article contains nothing but “procedural provisions,” while brief bases its entire