Is there any doubt that Madison, who wrote the Fifth Article, knew whom its word “conventions” described? When he asked the one American people to make the entire Constitution, this is what he told them about the Seventh Article, in which the same word “conventions” was used: “This Article speaks for itself. The express authority of the people alone could give due validity to the Constitution.” If the Seventh Article “speaks for itself” and points out that “the people alone” are to make the Constitution, with its grants of _national_ power in the First Article, what word in that Seventh Article identifies the makers of the Constitution, which Madison and all Americans know was made by the _one people_ of America? Is there any word in it except the one word “conventions” to describe the people or citizens of America? And if that one word “conventions” makes the Article speak for itself and tell us that the American citizens themselves made the whole Constitution, does not the word “conventions” in the Fifth Article speak just as plainly for itself and tell us that it also describes and identifies the one people of America, the citizens of America? Why then tinker with the Fifth Article and repeat the monumental error on which the existence of the Eighteenth Amendment is assumed? Why propose an Amendment to the Fifth Article, which Amendment will itself assume that the Fifth Article already is a “grant” to the state legislatures of ability to give away from the citizens of America their exclusive power to say to what extent and in what matters their one American government may interfere with their individual freedom in their character as American citizens?