An unusual method had been adopted for the hearing of what were later reported under the one title the “National Prohibition Cases,” 253 _U.S._ 350. In that hearing, which continued for days, seven different litigations were argued because all dealt either with the validity of the Eighteenth Amendment or with the meaning of its remarkable second section or with the statute enacted under that section and known as the Volstead Act. For the same reason, the briefs on both sides of the various litigations were clearly the result of conference and collaboration. Nearly all of the briefs, challenging the new Article, made their challenge on the same two main points and in the expression of those two challenges, made constant reference to the different expression thereof in the other briefs. In the litigation and argument of that March, appeared many of the best known lawyers in America. Among them were distinguished counsel, appearing on behalf of those legislative governments who claim and, in the new Article, have attempted to exercise the omnipotent supremacy over the citizens of America which was denied by the people of America to the British Parliament. Among them were other distinguished counsel, appearing on behalf of what had always been known as the supreme legislative government in America, _our government_ with its _enumerated_ powers and without omnipotence over us. Among them were still other distinguished counsel, appearing on behalf of some separate states or political entities to contend that there existed no _constitutional_ ability anywhere, even in ourselves, to take from their particular state any more of its sovereignty than it had surrendered in those early days when the states made the Constitution, as Sheppard claimed in the Congress of 1917. Among them were still other distinguished counsel, some of them the most distinguished of all, appearing to oppose, as best they knew how, the total destruction of all _legitimate_ industry in a business in which it was the _human_ right of Americans to engage even before Americans wrote their Statute of ’76 and consequently not a privilege of the citizen of America or the citizen of any state.