command of the First Section. This is exactly the form in which the Second Section of the supposed new Amendment was later ratified by these very state legislatures. That Second Section has been the subject of unlimited discussion for the past five years. Every one seems to have given it whatever meaning pleased him at some particular moment. When the House Chairman of the Judiciary Committee reported this Section to the House he frankly stated that “We thought it wise to give both the Congress and the several states concurrent power to enforce this Article and let that power be set forth and granted in the Article we propose to submit.” (_Congressional Record_, Vol. 56, p. 424.) But when Wheeler, counsel for a political organization which dictated that governments constitute this new government of men, wrote his briefs to uphold the validity of the new Article which Webb championed in the House, he explained that this Webb Second Section “does not add to the power already conferred upon Congress by Section 1” but that “it does, however, make clear that the power is _reserved_ to the states to pass legislation in aid of the acts of Congress.” As in most matters, the various champions of the supposed Eighteenth Amendment are unable to understand and agree upon the meaning of plain English. From time to time, in our education, it will be clear that they do not know and understand what the American people did in 1788 in their “conventions” but that, while flatly contradicting one another, they are all satisfied that the American citizens did give the state legislatures unlimited ability to interfere with individual freedom of the American citizen. It seems natural, therefore, to find Webb and Wheeler flatly contradicting one another as to the plain meaning of Section 2 of the Eighteenth Amendment. Despite the absurdity of the concept, Section 2 means exactly what Webb stated it to mean when he brought it from the House Judiciary Committee which had written it. It means, in the plainest English, that the state legislatures grant to themselves (as well as to Congress) ability to make commands of the very same kind as the same state legislatures make, without the grant, in the First Section. And it is a remarkable fact that, in all the comment on that Section 2 for five years, no word has been spoken about this ridiculous proposal that the state legislatures make a certain command and then grant themselves the power to make such commands. However, the absence of such comment has been quite in keeping with the fact that our modern leaders and lawyers, during the same five years, have never known or commented upon the fact that the Eighteenth Amendment depends for its existence upon the similar and equally absurd concept that the Fifth Article is a grant from the “conventions” to the “conventions” as well as to the state legislatures.