On the other hand, if he answers that the human beings of Texas are the State of Texas, we do proceed further. We proceed along the most definitely settled legal principle in America. If the human beings in Texas are its citizens and constitute its State, the constitution of Texas is their creation and the legislature of Texas is the creature of that constitution. From the Texans, through the creation which is their constitution, that legislature derives its every power over the human beings in Texas and cannot have any _such_ power except by grant from those human beings themselves. That is the law of Texas, settled by hundreds of decisions in Texas and America. Now, if our American Constitution is a compact between the State of Texas--the human beings in Texas--and the other states--the human beings in the other states--how comes it that the mere creature of the Texans, without power over them except from them, can, by combination with other servant legislatures outside Texas, give to itself and to other governments outside Texas a new power to interfere with the freedom of the human beings in Texas? We are rather afraid that Sheppard and those of his faith, even assuming that our Constitution is a compact between states, have entirely overlooked the legal fact that a government is not the State in America. We are rather afraid that they have reverted to what Madison called “the impious doctrine of the Old World,” namely, that the government is the State and the human beings are its asset and its property. We are rather afraid that they agreed with the concept of Louis of France, expressed in his famous “I am the State.” On no other basis can we explain their complete ignorance of the one important factor in the Tenth Amendment and the Fifth Article, “the people” of America, who, assembled in their “conventions,” as mentioned in the Fifth Article, are the citizens of America and compose the State or Nation of America.