If we still are citizens, as once undoubtedly we were, the new Article _cannot_ be in _our_ Constitution, because we have not made the new Article, assembled in our “conventions.” Where men are citizens, _governments_ cannot exercise ungranted power or create new power to interfere with individual liberty. In a nation of free men, established by former “subjects” with a dominant purpose that no American should ever be the “subject” of any governments, it is amazing that one government should propose that _governments_ constitute, and it is amazing that forty-six _governments_ should attempt to constitute, new government of men--new government power to interfere with individual human freedom. But most amazing of all, in a nation with the history of America, is the fact that, when audacious government had so proposed and audacious governments had so attempted, the prolonged arguments and voluminous briefs of fifty-seven leading members of the American Bar never once knew or stated the simple fact which made the proposal and the attempt a legal and constitutional absurdity. The fact itself, the one most important legal fact in America, was once known and “felt and acknowledged by all” Americans. Yet, not once in any brief in the National Prohibition Cases, was it either known or urged that the “conventions” of the Fifth Article are the “conventions” of the Seventh Article and that both are the whole American “people” of the Preamble and the Tenth Amendment and that, therefore, the Constitution expressly _reserves_ to the “conventions” _of the Fifth Article_, the citizens of America, their existing and exclusive ability to create new government power to interfere with their own individual human liberty.