by governments outside of New York, the Mullan-Gage Law would still remain a valid statute. This would mean, of course, that the republican form of government guaranteed to the citizens of New York, by the Fourth Article, had come absolutely to an end. Our particular query, at this point, is obviously one of considerable importance to us American citizens, each of whom happens to be also a citizen of some state to which the citizens of America made the guarantee of the Fourth Article and imposed on the very Congress, which originated the Eighteenth Amendment, the duty of having that guarantee fulfilled. There are other equally pertinent questions which we might ask about this unique Section 2 of the Eighteenth Amendment. We will leave them for the present, so that we may continue the story of the travel of the proposed new Article through the two Houses of the Congress which suggested that governments exercise and give government ability to exercise this new power over American citizens, not enumerated in the First Article. We come now to the days on which the House of Representatives and the Senate discussed the Joint Resolution. In the recorded eloquence of the advocates of the proposal, we shall find much to remind us of the prevailing attitude in the British Parliament toward us in 1775. But, in that eloquence, we shall look in vain for any echo of the Philadelphia of 1787 or of the “conventions” in which Americans once assembled and gave their only government its only enumerated powers to interfere with their individual freedom. CHAPTER XVII THE TORY IN THE HOUSE “Let facts be submitted to a candid world.” _They_ have “combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving” _their_ “assent to their acts of pretended legislation;. .. For. .. declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.” It is doubtful if our Congress of 1917 ever read the above language. It is certain that such Congress, reading those words, would heed them just as little as all advocates of the supposed Eighteenth Amendment have heeded the express commands of the Americans who uttered those words.