It is a general and direct command to all human beings anywhere in America, directly interfering with their individual freedom, on a matter not enumerated in the First Article. Since we denied omnipotence to Parliament, no legislature or legislatures had ever dared to make any general command to the American people, except the American Congress and _it_ only since 1789 and on matters enumerated in the First Article. From 1776 to 1789, no legislature or legislatures had any power whatever to make a general command to Americans on any subject whatever. When Americans, in answer to the Philadelphia 1787 proposal, made themselves a nation and constituted its government, they gave to that government _enumerated_ powers to make general commands on _some_ subjects. All other power to make general commands _of that kind_ they withheld from every government and reserved exclusively to themselves, as they had denied _every_ power of that kind to every government in the world by their Statute of ’76. For which very clear reasons, it had been continually repeated in the Supreme Court for a century that only one government in the world could make a general command to the citizens of America, and that the Congress itself could not make any such command on any subject not enumerated in the First Article. The Congress _proposal_ of the Eighteenth Amendment was its own recognition of the truth that the sole government of American citizens had no power to command them on that subject. It is probable that nothing ever originated in Congress more remarkable than this proposal that, because Congress itself was without the power to make the command, Congress should ask inferior governments of other citizens to make a command to the American citizens. If it were possible that this could be done, there would be no American citizen. While no public leader or renowned lawyer has known this simple fact, the story of five years has shown how difficult it is to educate _the average citizen_ away from the “American” mental attitude of 1776. In 1922, our Chief Executive commented on the fact that the disobedience of American citizens to the command made by the state governments had become a public scandal. From 1765 on, similar disobedience of Americans to commands made by government without authority _from_ Americans was a public scandal to Tories in America and in the British Parliament.