We recall vividly the statement of Lloyd George made only last year in the British Legislature. He was speaking of the proposed treaty with Ireland, then before that Legislature, and this is what he said, in substance. “The Parliament at Westminster [legislative government, not the people of the British Empire] is the source of every power in the British Empire.” It is our just tribute to Webb and every American who believes that the Eighteenth Amendment is in the Constitution, that they understand that the American nation is founded and exists on exactly the same principle. They have all acted upon the one conviction that the state governments collectively are exactly the same as the Parliament at Westminster, are above the American Constitution and need obey no command in it, and are the legitimate source of any power to interfere with the individual freedom of the American citizen, on any matter whatsoever. On our part, probably blinded by our own education with the earlier Americans, we still believe that Webb and all who think with him are hopelessly ignorant of American law. We believe that they do not understand in the least the vital change in the status of the American individual, from “subject” to “citizen,” on July 4, 1776. We remember Marshall’s clear statement, in the Supreme Court, that, in the days when Americans “were better acquainted with the science of government than any other people in the world” and the First Article grants of power over them were requested, the legal “necessity of deriving those powers from _them_ was felt and acknowledged by all.” We know that _they_ made no change in the imperative nature of that necessity. We do not understand how that legal necessity, during the past five years, has not been known to Webb and those of his Tory faith. We remember Marshall’s equally clear statement, again in the Supreme Court, that, when new grants of such power are wanted from its citizens by the American government, there is only one way, in which those grants can be validly or “effectively” made, namely, by those citizens themselves, assembled in their “conventions.” It is true, the American citizens assembled in those conventions in their several states. “No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the states, and of compounding the American people into one common mass” and of compelling them to assemble in _one_ “convention,” when it is necessary for them to act, as possessors of exclusive ability to vest national power over them. Of consequence, when they act, they act in their states. But the measures _they_ adopt do not, on that account, cease to be measures _of the people themselves_, or become the measures of the state governments. (M’Culloch v. Maryland, 4 _Wheat._ 316.) We do not understand how Webb and those of his Tory faith have forgotten this legal fact, possibly the most important in America to the liberty of its citizens.