We find some considerable amusement in comparing the speech of Sheppard, proposer of the Eighteenth Amendment, and the brief of Hughes, champion of the Eighteenth Amendment. If government was to carry through a successful revolution against free men and acquire the omnipotence denied to the British Parliament, it would have been well for the proposers of the Revolution and the champions of it to have agreed at least upon one fact, whether the states, political entities, or the citizens of _America_, in _their_ “conventions,” made the Constitution--which was to secure the American citizen against all usurpation of power by governments. But, once we sense the certainty that this revolution of government against free citizens _cannot_ be successful, once we realize the certain decision of the Supreme Court when the real challenge is made to the disguised revolution, we can forget the attempted tragedy of human liberty. Then we shall know that the entire story of the last five years is an inexhaustible mine of humor. And, among the briefs of those who championed this revolution of government against human being, we shall find no mean rival (in unconscious humor) to any other part of that story. We recall, at our first introduction to all the briefs, the epitome of all the knowledge we had just brought from the early conventions: “There is only one great muniment of our liberty which can never be amended, revoked or withdrawn--the Declaration of Independence. In this regard, it ranks with the Magna Charta.” We recall how pleased we were to know that the Court must hear another champion of individual liberty, who also must have come from the “conventions” in which we had sat. We recall how, in his brief, this truthful tribute to the Statute of ’76 was immediately followed by the quotation from that Statute, which includes these words: “That to secure these Rights, [the Rights of men granted by their Creator] governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the _People_ to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to _them_ shall seem most likely to effect _their_ Safety and Happiness.”