As this fact has been the basis of many errors in that comedy and tragedy of errors, which is the five-year tale of the Eighteenth Amendment, we average Americans may well dwell for a moment upon the certainty of that fact. It is the natural mistake of those, who have the Tory concept of the relation of men to government, that they should first confuse the meaning of the words “privilege of a citizen” with the words “privilege of a subject” and thus believe that the nature of both privileges, and the source of each are the same. That mistake is but the echo of the error which confuses the nature of Magna Charta with that of the Statute of ’76. Magna Charta is the declaration of certain privileges which government will permit its subjects to keep as long as the government pleases. The Statute of ’76 is the declaration that destroys the relation of government to subjects, creates the relation of citizens to their servant governments, and states that the servants shall have no power to interfere with the human rights of the masters, given by their Creator, except such power as the masters choose to give, and that the servants shall keep that power only so long as the masters will. To the Tory concept, always concentrated on the relation of subject to master government, it is difficult of apprehension that the human being is born with the right to use his human freedom as he himself wills, so long as he does not interfere with the similar exercise of human freedom by the rest of us human beings. If men, in the exercise of their free will, would always obey the defined law of Him who created them, the exercise of human freedom by one individual would never interfere with the exercise of human freedom by all other individuals, and no human government need ever be constituted. Among the human rights of Americans, as of all human beings, when they come into the world, is the human right to do everything which is forbidden in the first section of the Eighteenth Amendment. It is true, as we frequently hear stated, that the Supreme Court has decided that the right to do any of those things is not the “privilege” of American citizens or of the citizens of any state. It is also equally true, although the Supreme Court has never been called upon to decide that very obvious fact, that the right to breathe is not the “privilege” of an American citizen or of the citizen of a state. Both rights are among the rights of human beings, _as such_, and they are each of them among the rights of themselves, which we, “the people” of America, established and ordained our Constitution to secure. When we established that Constitution for that purpose, we admittedly gave our only American government no power to make the command of the first section of the Eighteenth Amendment. That is why the governments of _other_ citizens were asked to make the command to ourselves, the citizens of America.