At last, in this brief, we are getting the clear echo of our own knowledge that, _until this Statute is revoked_, it is not the right of “_government or governments_” to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to “governments” shall seem most likely to effect the safety and happiness “of governments.” Moreover, in this brief, we are getting the clear echo of our own knowledge that this Statute can _never_ be revoked, while we remain free men and citizens instead of the subjects we were until that Statute was enacted. And when we turn to another brief for a moment, we are cheered to find the refutation of the Sheppard ignorance of the identity of those who made _our_ Constitution, “We, the people of” America, in its Preamble and its most important factor of the Tenth Amendment, the “conventions” of ourselves in its Seventh and its Fifth Articles. With gratification that some “constitutional” lawyers still know and observe the important distinction between the ability of ourselves, the “conventions” of the Seventh and Fifth Articles, and the lack of ability in the “legislatures” of the Fifth Article to give to government _national_ powers, we average Americans recognize, in the following challenge of _this_ brief, the challenge we would have made to the Sheppard proposition that legislatures attempt to constitute such new government over us. This is the challenge of the brief to Sheppard: “The Constitution is not a compact between states. It proceeds _directly_ from the people. As was said by Mr. Chief Justice Marshall in McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 _Wheat._ 316, etc.” Then follows the Marshall clear exposition of how the people themselves, the “conventions,” made the constitution which is the First Article and how, if any other constitution of that kind, such as the Eighteenth Amendment, is ever to be made “safely, _effectively_, and wisely” it must be made by ourselves, assembled in the “conventions” named in the Fifth Article. The full extract from Marshall has been set out already herein at page 98.