We expect the lawyers _against_ the new Amendment to challenge its existence with the facts and knowledge we bring from our education with the Americans who made themselves free men and citizens. We expect the lawyers _for_ the new Amendment to point out the day and the manner in which they claim that government of the American people by the American people _did_ disappear from America. Unless these lawyers for the Amendment do point out that day and manner and sustain their claim as to both, we know that the existence of the new Amendment is successfully challenged by the facts which we have acquired in our education. Before we listen to the expositions of these facts by the lawyers against the new Amendment, let us briefly review the facts themselves as they bear upon the supposed existence of the new Amendment. When 1776 opened, the American people were subjects in rebellion against their omnipotent government. By direct action of themselves, in July, 1776, they made themselves free men, made their former colonies independent states and made each of themselves a citizen of some one of those states. Almost immediately, the Statute of ’76 having declared the actual fact that the supreme will in America was possessed by the American people, at _their_ suggestion and with _their_ permission, the citizens of each state constituted their own government with its _national_ powers to interfere with the individual freedom of its own citizens. In strict conformity to the Statute of ’76 and to the sole American concept of the relation between government and human being, those grants of power to interfere with individual freedom, like every other grant _of that kind_ until the Eighteenth Amendment, were made by the respective citizens to their respective governments.