Because Mark Twain is dead, we must get from those briefs, without his aid, the knowledge that the new Article depends entirely on the extraordinary concept that the Fifth Article constituted a hitherto unknown government of all American citizens, not our government of enumerated First Article powers but an entirely distinct government--not a member of it chosen by American citizens--“invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.” In other words, we are to learn from the briefs _for_ the new Article that our supposed only and supreme American government is, and that all American citizens are, subject to the omnipotence of a still more supreme legislative government, consisting of the state legislative governments on whose behalf some of the most distinguished lawyers of 1920 appeared. It is the clear concept of those lawyers that upon the _will_ of the governments they represented, a will subject to the restraint of no Constitution in America, depends entirely what measure of human freedom we individual American citizens may enjoy. This concept stands out clear and sharply defined in their briefs, although neither they nor their opponent lawyers grasp the fact. On the fact that the Fifth Article _mentions_ their client governments, the state legislatures, they base the entire claim that the Eighteenth Amendment is in our Constitution. On this _mention_ rests their extraordinary assumption that the Fifth Article is a _“grant”_ of power to those governments--and to the very “conventions” which made the Fifth Article--to make new Articles of every kind, whether _federal_ to govern states or _national_ to interfere with the freedom of the individual.