that kind_ over them, which was not granted in the First Article. Who can deny that, stated in our own words, this is what we find in the plain declaration of the Tenth Amendment? “We, the people of America, assembled in our conventions, have granted to the _American_ government enumerated powers of the First Article. They are the only powers _of that kind_ delegated to any government, by which it can interfere with our individual freedom in our capacity as American citizens. All powers, which the citizens of each state have hitherto had and which we have not taken from them herein, we have left with them; and the citizens of each state can grant so much of said powers as they please to their own government to govern them as citizens of that state. All other powers, outside those we have granted to our government to interfere with us and those we have left to the citizens of each state for their own respective exercise, we reserve exclusively to ourselves, in our capacity as citizens of America. And, if any government should deem it wise that any one of these powers (which we so reserve exclusively to ourselves) should be exercised, we have provided in the Fifth Article the mode of procedure in which we, assembled in our conventions, can CONSTITUTIONALLY exercise it or grant it to the government which wants to exercise it.” The powers the people have given to the General Government are named in the Constitution, and all not there named, either expressly or by implication, are reserved to the people and can be exercised only by them, or upon further grant from them. (Justice Brewer in Turner v. Williams, 194 _U. S._ 279.) Later herein we Americans, fresh from the “conventions” which demanded these declarations for the better protection of individual liberty, are going to hear expounded a doctrine, which would mean that these declarations were themselves the _American_ Magna Charta. We are going to hear, to our amazement, that these declarations were a compact between an omnipotent government and its subjects, ourselves, who have always imagined that we were “citizens” and not “subjects.” We are going to hear, to our utter incredulity, that these declarations are the promise of a government--itself omnipotent over ourselves and _our_ Constitution and _our_ government which we thought to be the supreme government in America--that we, the subjects of that omnipotent government, may have certain privileges which this omnipotent government will not take from us.