Yet the statesmen of America, when its citizens were offering their lives and their all, chose that December of 1917 to propose that legislative governments, which have never been the governments of the American citizen, should exercise one of those reserved powers of “the people” and should give to _the_ legislative government of the American citizens future ability to exercise that same power, although American citizens had expressly reserved the power to themselves exclusively. In December, 1917, as in January, 1790, the American Congress was the only legislative government of the American people. All powers _of a national character_ which are not delegated to the national government by the Constitution are reserved to the _people_ of the United States. (Justice Brewer, in the Supreme Court, Kansas v. Colorado, 206 _U. S._ 46 at p. 90.) Outside of _that_ legislature, American citizens have _no_ legislative government. Its powers are limited in number, but not in degree. Within the scope of its powers, as enumerated and defined, it is supreme and above the states; but beyond, it has no existence. (Justice Waite, in the Supreme Court, United States v. Cruikshank, 92 _U. S._ 542.) In the Senate, on April 4, 1917, Senator Sheppard of Texas had introduced a Resolution, known as Senate Joint Resolution 17. The Resolution itself, apart from the proposed new constitutional Article which the senator suggested that legislative governments should make, read as follows: “_Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two thirds of each House concurring therein), That_ the following amendment to the Constitution be, and hereby is, proposed to the States, to become valid as a part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of the several States as provided by the Constitution:” The proposed new national Article, which this 1917 Resolution suggested should be made by legislative _governments_, originally and in April, 1917, read as follows: * * * * * “Article--. “SECTION 1. The manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, and the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes are hereby prohibited, “SECTION 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation, and nothing in this article shall deprive the several States of their power to enact and enforce laws prohibiting the traffic in intoxicating liquors.” By reason of _our_ education in the actual constitution of our only American government and our respective state governments, we grasp immediately the startling nature of the suggestion that the state governments make that Section 1 and that Section 2. We first dwell with amazement upon the proposed Section 1 and its proposed makers.