In _our_ Constitution no power whatever over the citizens of America was ever granted to the states singly or collectively, or to the governments of the states singly or collectively. That all governments in America, including the Congress of 1917, might know that settled fact, it was stated with the utmost clarity in the Tenth Amendment to that Constitution. That Amendment, repeatedly held by the Supreme Court to be part of the original Constitution, is the clear declaration that no power of any kind over us, the citizens of America, is granted in that Constitution to any government save the government of America, and to it only the enumerated powers _of that kind_ in the First Article. It is also the clear declaration that all powers to interfere with individual freedom, except the powers _granted_ in the First Article to the _American_ government and powers _reserved_ to the citizens of each state respectively, to govern themselves, are reserved to the American citizens. Wherefore, now educated in the experience of the Americans who insisted on that declaration, we make exactly the same charge, against the Congress of 1917 and all advocates of the Eighteenth Amendment, that was made by those Americans against their king who insisted that they were “subjects” of an omnipotent legislature. In December, 1917, the Congress knew that it could not make, to the citizens of America, the command which is Section 1 of the Eighteenth Amendment. By reason of that knowledge, that legislature--the only _American_ one--paid its tribute to the state legislative governments as collectively a supreme American Parliament with exactly the same omnipotence over all Americans “as subjects” which the Americans of 1776 denied to the British Parliament. Congress ought to have known that no government except Congress can make any command on any subject to American citizens. It did know that Congress could not make the command of the new article to the American citizen. Therefore it paid its tribute to the state governments. It asked them, as competent grantors, to give it a new enumerated power to interfere with the individual freedom of the American citizen. It is history that those state governments, each with no jurisdiction whatever except over the citizens of its own state, went through the farce of signing the requested grant in the name of the citizens of America. It is law that those state governments are not the attorneys in fact of the citizens in America for any purpose whatever. It is law that no governments have any power of attorney from the citizens of America to grant to any government a new enumerated ability to interfere with the individual freedom of the American citizens. For which simple legal reason, the supposed grant of such a power, by government to government, in Section 2 of the Eighteenth Amendment, is a forgery.