We average Americans, in the light of our education, reading the record of that July 30 in our Senate, would have thought, _were it not for one fact_, that every senator was using the expurgated edition of the Constitution, which Webb later used in the House, and which omits entirely from the Fifth Article the words, “by conventions in three fourths of” the states. Were it not for that one fact our thought would have been justified. We know that the proposition of Sheppard, embodied in his Senate Resolution No. 17, was that the proposed new Article should be referred to the tribunal of the state legislative governments. We know, and we have quoted his own statement, which is the basis of that knowledge, that he held that legislative tribunal to be “the only tribunal having power of amending” our Constitution. We know that he held this legislative tribunal to be “the proper tribunal to decide the fate of this Amendment.” We know his confidence that this legislative and government tribunal has “the right to shape, alter, and develop” our Constitution, ordained and established by the citizens of America. His conviction, in this respect, is stamped indelibly on our mind, because it came in such sharp conflict with our knowledge that _all_ Americans of an earlier day held that every _national_ Article, like the First Article and the supposed Eighteenth Amendment, must be referred to that other tribunal, the only tribunal competent to make _such_ Articles where men are citizens and not subjects, the tribunal of the American citizens themselves, the tribunal mentioned in the Fifth Article in the words “by conventions in three fourths of” the states in America. We know, therefore, inasmuch as neither Sheppard nor any senator but one apparently knew of the existence of that other and supreme tribunal or of the presence of those words in the Fifth Article, that all senators save that one must have been using an expurgated edition of the Fifth Article.