If one doubts that the First Article WAS the constitution of the government of men, test the truth of the statement in this way. First, assume that the “conventions” made no Article save the First. Then ask yourself if the whole American people would not have constituted their government with its great enumerated powers to interfere with their individual liberty. In the second place, make exactly the opposite assumption. Assume that the “conventions” made all the Articles from the Second to the Seventh, both inclusive, _but did not make the First Article_. Then ask yourself whether the whole American people would have constituted any government with a single power to interfere with their individual freedom. Let us now apply exactly the same test to each of the first seventeen Amendments and then to the supposed Eighteenth Amendment. Take any one of the first seventeen Amendments and assume that anything _new_ which it put into the Constitution was the entire Constitution. Then ask yourself whether, if the Constitution consisted solely of the new matter in the Amendment, there would be any government of the whole American people with a single power to interfere with their individual human liberty. Take _all_ the seventeen Amendments and assume that any change all of them made was the entire Constitution. Then ask yourself whether, if any new matter in the seventeen Amendments composed the entire Constitution, would there be any government of the whole American people with a single power to interfere with their individual human liberty. Now make the same assumption about the supposed Eighteenth Amendment. Assume that it is the entire Constitution and that there are no other Articles. Immediately it is seen that, if the Eighteenth Amendment were the entire Constitution, there would be a government of the whole American people with an enumerated power to interfere with their individual human liberty.