When this briefer made his argument for his client who had been a candidate for Senator, he had no attack to make upon the _procedure_ in which Congress had passed the Corrupt Practices Act. When he went to ascertain whether Congress had the power to make that command, about “elections,” he did not look for the power in any “procedural provisions,” which prescribe _how_ Congress should exercise its ability to make commands. If this briefer or any lawyer were asked, on behalf of a client, to accept a bill of sale from an _alleged_ attorney in fact of the owner of a cow, he would not seek, in any procedural provisions which prescribed _how_ an attorney in fact can execute an instrument for his principal, to find the authority of the alleged attorney to sell the cow. Why then, in an Article with naught but procedural provisions and two limitations on power to make Articles, do he and all his associates seek to find, _and assert that they do find_, grant of authority to the inferior governments of state citizens to give away every liberty which the citizens of America hold most dear? CHAPTER XXV CITIZEN OR “EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT”? It is our invincible knowledge that the Fifth Article is not a power of attorney to any one to act for us, the citizens of America, in regard to any individual right which the _American_ citizen has. In our capacity as American citizens and in “conventions” of the very kind named in that Fifth Article, we gave the only power of attorney, which we have ever given to any government to act for us in making commands to interfere with any of our individual rights. That power of attorney is the First Article. We made it in the same “conventions.” In it, we gave to our Congress our only power of attorney _of that kind_. In it, with futile effort to keep modern “constitutional thinkers” from monumental error, we said, at the very beginning of the one Article which is our only power of attorney, that to our Congress alone the Constitution gives any powers to make commands that interfere with our individual rights. “All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress, etc.” (Art. I, Section I. _U.S. Cons._)