In our eager anticipation to hear his argument and see his brief, how were we, fresh from the “conventions” in which sat some of the men who had written that Statute eleven years earlier, to know that the briefer understood their language to read as follows: “That to secure these rights of human beings, granted by their Creator, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of _the state governments_. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of _the state governments_ to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to _the state governments_ shall seem most likely to effect the welfare of those who control the state governments.” That this _is_ the meaning of that Statute to this briefer, we may realize when we know that the tribute to the Statute and the quotation from the Statute are in the brief of Wheeler, counsel for the political organization which managed the new revolution of government against people and dictated the proposal that governments should constitute new government of men in America. Now we grasp why this briefer said that, in the fact that the Declaration of Independence could “never be amended, revoked or withdrawn,” the Statute of ’76 “ranks with the Magna Charta.” To this briefer, the Statute of ’76, like the Great Charter of old, is the ruler government dispensing privileges to its subjects, the people. That is why this briefer, with his Tory concept of the relation of government to human beings, does not know that the Statute of ’76 _is_ the revocation of the principle on which Magna Charta rested, the doctrine that the government is the State and the people are its assets. This briefer, _like all his associates_, does not know the great change which the American people made in the picture of American government. We are all familiar with the picture, “His Master’s Voice.” When those Americans were born, from whose “conventions” we have come, the listener in that picture was “the people” of the Preamble and the Tenth Amendment in our Constitution. The voice of the master was the voice of government. When those Americans died, _they_ had changed the picture. The listener had become the governments in America, the voice of the master had become “the people” of America, its citizens. The new painting of the picture was on July 4, 1776. That the listener might never deface the truth of the new picture, the Constitution of 1787 was proposed at Philadelphia and later made by the master in the picture. The proposal of Wheeler and his associates and the action of governments on that proposal are the unlawful attempt to change the picture back to what it had been before the Statute of ’76.