What action of _our_ public leaders, even in this year 1923, does not disclose that they still have the Tory concept that states and their governments, both of which are political entities, _can_ exercise or grant power which the Tenth Amendment expressly declares that the American citizens reserved exclusively to themselves, and which the Supreme Court, even as late as 1907, clearly held “could be exercised only by them or upon further grant from them?” No discerning American has failed to note that the Senate still clings to the delusion of 1917, that states and _their_ citizens and _their_ governments have anything whatever to do with the _national_ part of the Constitution of the citizens of America. In the newspapers, on January 30, 1923, under the heading, “Favor New Defense for Constitution,” appeared a dispatch from Washington. It told how the senators on the Judiciary Sub-Committee had agreed to report favorably a proposal again to amend the Constitution by changing the language of the Fifth Article. And the main element of the proposed change is to provide that any state may require that ratification by its legislature be subject to confirmation by popular vote of the citizens _of that state_. The citizens of each state make their own Constitution. In it, they give to their own government what ability they please to interfere with their own individual freedom. What have the citizens _of any State_, what have the citizens _of every state_, in their capacity _as state citizens_, to do with grants of power to the American government to interfere with the individual liberty of the _American_ citizens? Have not the _American_ citizens, in _every_ state, protection against grants of _such_ power to the one government of the _American_ people except by the citizens _of America_ themselves, _in that character_? Is there anything in the Fifth Article, as it was written by Madison and made by the one American people, which permits any state governments--which have no power even over their own respective citizens except by grant from them--to exercise or create new government power to interfere with the liberty of the citizens of the distinct and supreme nation, America? Why persistently and insistently ignore the basic American legal principle that every state government must get its own power over its own citizens from them and that the only government of the American citizens must get its every _national_ (as distinguished from _federal_) power directly from the citizens _of America_, assembled in the “conventions” named in the Fifth Article?