When our present Constitution was before the people of America, waiting their approval or rejection, Madison and Hamilton published their series of essays, now known as _The Federalist_. It is not our intent to dwell upon the knowledge of American basic law shown by these two men. Elsewhere our Supreme Court has paid its deserved tribute to _The Federalist_ as an authority of the greatest weight in the meaning of our Constitution. At this moment, we desire to mention one remarkable quality which makes those essays unique among arguments written in the heat of a great political controversy. They were written to urge that human beings create a great nation and grant some enumerated powers to interfere with their own freedom. They were written when other great leaders were opposing that project with the utmost ability and eloquence. These opponents, as is the custom with men in any heated controversy, denounced the project and its advocates. The abuse of both project and advocates has probably never been exceeded in America. Yet it is one remarkable quality of the arguments of Madison and Hamilton, in _The Federalist_, that they themselves never leave the realm of reason and fact and law, or descend to irrelevant abuse of those who differ in opinion with them. We, who have lived through the last five years in America, can truthfully say that the advocates of the new constitution of government, the Eighteenth Amendment, have made their essays and speeches and arguments notable for the same quality, by its utter absence. Because fact would interfere with the making of their new Constitution, they have changed fact. Because law meant that government could not constitute their government of the people, they have stated law which has never been law in America since 1776. Because reason would prevent the achievement of their purpose, they have appealed to irrelevant abuse of those who dared to differ in opinion with them. In view of these known facts, we average Americans shall not be surprised when we read the record of the Senate on its own proposal that government should exercise a power not delegated to interfere with individual freedom. Fresh from the reading of the record in the House, we shall not be surprised to find that the Senate also ignored the most important factors in the Tenth Amendment and the Fifth Article, “the people” in the one, and the mention of the people’s exclusive ability to make _national_ Articles in the other.