That is why anything which _these_ “legislatures” do, when it comes in conflict with a valid action of _our_ legislature, the Congress, must always yield. We have the supreme will in America, and when _our_ agent, the Congress, speaks with authority from us, it speaks for us, while the inferior agents of other lesser wills never speak for us. That clear distinction does not detract from the ability of those legislatures to make _federal_ Articles in our Constitution. They do not get that ability from us, the citizens of America. They had that ability from those respective inferior wills, when we made our Constitution. By its exercise, they had made the federation of states and the _federal_ Articles of its government. When we made our national Constitution, we continued that federation and the ability of its component members to make its federal Articles and put them in our Constitution, which is both our national Constitution and their federal Constitution. The ability to make those _federal_ Articles is one of the powers reserved to those inferior wills by the reservation of the Tenth Amendment which reads “to the states respectively”; and it is not an ability to make Articles which is granted in the Fifth Article. No ability to make Articles is _granted_ in that Fifth Article. Inasmuch, however, as the writer of the brief in 1920 has known that “legislatures” do not ever become “the people,” it is quite probable that his reference did not intend to suggest that the legislatures of which he spoke and who are the agents respectively of other citizens, were the agents, for any purpose, of the citizens of America. With his recognition that legislatures never are the people and with the other quoted extracts of those briefs of 1920 before us, echoing the knowledge we have acquired, we feel at least that in the court of 1920, from the debate of men who know, we will learn whether and “when” and “how,” we, between 1907 and 1917, became subjects instead of the free men and citizens which we clearly were up to 1907. At least such was the thought of one American citizen, when he read this quotation, in one of the briefs of 1920, “that the people do not become a legislature.... As well confound the creator and the creature--the principal and the agent through which he acts.” It was almost incredible to this particular American citizen that he found this statement and the statement that--“The Constitution is not a compact between states. It proceeds directly from the people.”--both in the briefs of the foremost champion of the new Amendment. And it seemed equally incredible to him to find the quotation about the Statute of ’76 being “one great muniment of our liberty which can never be amended, revoked or withdrawn” in the brief of the counsel for the political organization which dictated the new state government command to the citizens of America.