The clear tribute to the unrepealed Statute of ’76 excuses, while it does not explain, the error of the allusion to Magna Charta. Graduate students of the history of the advance of Americans from subjects to free men, we average citizens grasp the error of the statement, “in this regard [that neither can ever be revoked] the Statute of ’76 ranks with the Magna Charta.” We know that the Statute _was_ the revocation of the basic doctrine on which Magna Charta rested. Magna Charta was the grant of privilege from an omnipotent government to its subjects. All that subjects ever have are the revocable privileges granted by the master government. The Statute of ’76 states the basic American law that there are no subjects in America, that the human members of any political society or state or nation, except as they directly grant power over some of their human rights to secure enjoyment of the rest, need obey the command of no one except Him who gave them their human rights. In a free nation, such as the earlier Americans made of themselves, no man has any privileges _granted_ by a master government. In a free nation, citizens or members of the society (and the supreme will therein) have their servant governments to which those citizens give whatever _national_ powers those governments ever have. Except for the grants of _such_ power which those citizens so make, the human beings retain, not as a gift or privilege of government but as the gift of Him Who created them, all human freedom of action. As _citizens_, they also possess the particular privileges which arise from membership in that particular society of men; but even those privileges are not the gift of government but the creation and effect of the society itself, just as every power of the government is also the gift of the society. We pardon the error of the reference to Magna Charta, however, when we read on in the brief and find it immediately quoting from our Statute: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights; that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the Governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the _People_ to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers on such form, as to _them_ shall seem most likely to effect _their_ Safety and Happiness.”