If time permitted, our sense of humor would keep us long with the briefs of Wheeler and his associates. It was their thought that the doctrine of Christ could be made a better Christianity by a substitution of the prohibition of Mohammed for the temperance of Christ. This natural modesty on their part made certain that we would find, in the Wheeler brief, this tribute to the good _intentions_ of the Americans of those early “conventions,” accompanied by an humble tribute to the much greater wisdom of the briefers. “The people, under this form of government may, of course, do unwise things. This is the alleged danger of a republican or democratic form of government. If the electorates are not intelligent, moral and patriotic, our government will fail. Our forefathers took that chance in choosing a form of government that was controlled entirely by the people. History proves that they builded more wisely than they knew. The people have kept step with advancing civilization under the same construction of our Constitution. This last advance in the prohibition of the beverage liquor traffic, which is one of the greatest evils that ever cursed humanity, is additional evidence of the wisdom of our forebears. It is generally recognized as the greatest piece of constructive legislation that was ever adopted by a self-governing people.” The finest passage in the “Comic Blackstone” does not approach this in its excellence as unconscious humor. Educated with “our forefathers” who “took that chance in choosing a form of government that was controlled entirely _by the people_,” we call the attention of Wheeler to one of his many mistakes by rewriting his next sentence, as he should have written it: “History proves that they builded more wisely than Wheeler or his associates knew or are able to understand.” Our forefathers knew that, wherever men are citizens, neither state governments nor any governments are “the people” or can surrender rights of “the people” or can constitute new governments of “the people” interfering with their individual freedom and, therefore, when those “conventions” of old did choose and establish a form of government “that was controlled entirely by the people,” they were not stupid enough to think that the American government would be _that kind_ of a government if it could be controlled entirely by legislatures, which never are the people. It is rather ridiculous to find Hughes, associate champion of Wheeler for the new Amendment, contending that the people never are the legislature, while Wheeler contends that a government is controlled entirely by the people when it is controlled entirely by legislatures. But, it is to be expected, when men work in association on a common _unsound_ basis, that one champion should frequently contradict another as to fact, and that even the same champion should often contradict himself as to fact.