There never has been any other possible meaning to those words in the Fifth Article, “or by conventions in three fourths thereof.” To the Americans who worded that Article at Philadelphia and to the Americans who made that Article, assembled in just such “conventions” as are mentioned in words therein, that quoted phrase was the most important factor in the Fifth Article. To them, those quoted words therein were the complement of their most important factor in the Tenth Amendment, the reservation to themselves (“the people” or citizens of America) of every _national_ power not delegated in the First Article. Together, the two important factors were the command of the citizens of America that all _national_ powers so reserved to themselves could be delegated only by themselves, assembled in their “conventions” --“by conventions in three fourths of” their states. We, who have lived through their education with them, realize this with certainty. Webb and those who believe with him know nothing about it. Recognizing that Congress had been given no power to make the command which is Section 1 of the new Amendment, they first asked the state governments to make that command to the citizens of America. This was an exact repetition of the error made by counsel in Kansas v. Colorado, supra. This was their ignoring of the most important factor in the Tenth Amendment. Then, that the display of their own ignorance should contain something original, they ignored the most important factor in the Fifth Article and requested that a new power, reserved by the citizens of America to themselves, should be granted by the state governments. Everything that they have said or done, during the last five years, is based on that ignoring of that most important factor in that particular Article. Indeed Webb himself made this very clear at the very opening of his appeal that Senate Resolution Number 17 be passed in the House on December 17, 1917. He merely paused to make the lucid explanation of how _two_ supreme powers act, and then went on to read the Fifth Article as it appears in his expurgated edition of our Constitution. This is the Fifth Article he read to our only legislature: “that Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution ... which ... shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states.”