In view of these facts, we educated citizens of America have no difficulty in grasping the Tory mental attitude of Webb (and his colleagues _for_ the new Amendment) that all constitutional protection for our individual freedom may be legally dispensed with at any time _by government_, if governments only get together and act jointly, as in the proposal and supposed adoption of the new Amendment entirely by governments. For the edification of Webb and those of his faith in that respect, we would like to inform them that all who believe that the new Amendment has been or can be put in the Constitution by governments, “seem to have lost sight of the people altogether in their reasonings on this subject; and to have viewed” our national and state governments, “not only as mutual rivals and enemies, but as uncontrolled by any common superior in their efforts to usurp the authorities of each other. These gentlemen must be here reminded of their error. They must be told that the ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone, and that it will not depend merely on the comparative ambition or address of the different governments, whether either, or which of them, will be able to enlarge its sphere of jurisdiction at the expense of the other.” (_Fed._ No. 46.) It contributes not a little to the importance of the quoted statements that they were written by Madison, who also wrote the real Fifth Article. They are his warning to the then “adversaries of the Constitution.” They serve well as our warning to the present adversaries of our Constitution, who assume and have acted on the assumption that they can ignore its most important factors whenever government desires to exercise or to grant a new power to interfere with our individual freedom, although we have not granted it but have reserved it to ourselves. We might continue somewhat indefinitely the story of Senate Joint Resolution 17 in the House of Representatives on that December day of its passage therein. We would find, however, what we have already seen of Webb and his colleagues there to be typical of all they have said and all that they knew of basic American law. We cannot leave that House on that day, however, without some comment upon the final eloquent appeal made by Webb at the close of his arduous labor to secure the passage of the Resolution.