4. The prohibition of the manufacture, sale, transportation, importation and exportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes, as embodied in the Eighteenth Amendment, is within the power to amend _reserved_ by Article V of the Constitution. (National Prohibition Cases, 253, _U. S._ 350, 384.) We are not interested in the first two propositions which the Court negatived. They were that the Congress resolution should have _said_ that two thirds of Congress deemed it necessary to propose the Amendment and that the proposals should have been made by two thirds of the entire membership of the House instead of two thirds of a quorum in each House. These are trifling and unimportant matters when over one hundred million Americans seek to learn when they ceased to be citizens of America and became absolute “subjects” of governments in America. The third proposition negatived has naught to do with ourselves, the citizens _of America_. It deals only with the rights of some _state_ citizens _as such_, where their _state_ constitution has a referendum provision. For our protection against usurpation by any government of our own reserved rights or powers, we look to our own _American_ Constitution. We have lived through its making with the Americans who made it to secure individual liberty of themselves and their posterity, ourselves, the citizens of America. The clear statement of simple fact, expressed in the Court’s fourth conclusion, tells us something, which, with Madison, we have known since he wrote and suggested his Fifth Article, at Philadelphia, on September 10, 1787. Our stay in the “conventions,” which made the Fifth Article, has taught us that the Americans in them, even Henry and the opponents of the Constitution, were fully aware of the fact that the Fifth Article provided the CONSTITUTIONAL mode in which the “conventions” could thereafter exercise the existing omnipotence of the citizens of America themselves to make any kind of an Article of government. The same stay fixed firmly in our minds that every one in them knew that the Fifth Article is not a grant of any ability from themselves to themselves, from the “conventions” named in the Seventh Article to the same “conventions” named in the Fifth Article, all being the “conventions” of the American citizens assembled to exercise their own omnipotence.