The United States [the great political society of men which this book persistently calls America] form, for many, and for most important purposes, a single nation.... In war, we are one people. In making peace, we are one people. In all commercial regulations, we are one and the same people. In many other respects, the American people are one; and the government which is alone capable of controlling and managing their interests in all these respects, is the government of the Union. It is _their government, and in that character they have no other_. America has chosen to be, in many respects, and to many purposes, a nation; and for all these purposes, _her government_ is complete; to all these objects, it is competent. The people have declared that, in the exercise of all powers given _for these objects_, it is supreme. It can, then, in effecting these objects, legitimately control all individuals or governments within the American territory. (U. S. Supreme Court, Cohens v. Virginia, 6 _Wheat._ 264, at p. 413 et seq.) These words of Marshall tell every American why there is an “America,” a nation of men, in addition to a “United States,” a federation or league of political entities. The league existed before the Constitution created the nation. The league was not created by the Constitution. But the league was continued by the Constitution in which free men created the nation. In that Constitution, the league and its component members (the states) were made subordinate to the nation and _its_ component members, who are the citizens of America. How comes it, then, that modern leaders, for five years last past, have talked their nonsense about _another_ government of the one American people? How comes it that they have argued and acted as if the Fifth Article _constituted_ another government of the one American people? It certainly would be startling for Marshall and his generation to hear the Eighteenth Amendment claim that one important purpose for which Americans chose to be one people was the purpose of enabling thirty-six legislatures of state citizens to interfere, “in all matters whatsoever,” with every individual liberty of all American citizens. In the light of our education with the one American people who chose to be, “in many respects, and to many purposes, a nation” and to have, IN THAT CHARACTER, no government other than the government constituted by the First Article, how otherwise, than by the one word “nonsense,” can we dignify the five-year discussion as to the _extent_ of the powers granted in the Fifth Article to _other_ governments, the respective governments of the members of the league, to interfere with the liberties of the members of the nation, the citizens of America?