And so the average American citizen will look forward with certainty to the decision of that Court when the _real_ challenge is made to the existence of the Eighteenth Amendment by an American who does know and assert the plain facts which mean that either there is no Eighteenth Amendment or there never has been an American citizen. It _is_ simple fact that the existence of the Eighteenth Amendment, that government-made constitution of government of men, is absolutely incompatible with the existence of a citizen of America. It _is_ simple fact that the Fifth Article did not grant to state governments or to any governments the ability to make Articles like the First Article or the Eighteenth Amendment, or else the Fifth Article made all Americans “subjects” of a part of the state governments, with omnipotent ability in those governments to legislate for Americans “in all matters whatsoever.” And it is simple fact that the Supreme Court must and will--when the real challenge is at last made--decide that the Eighteenth Amendment is not in the _national_ part of the American Constitution because it was made by governments and not by the “conventions” of the Fifth Article. Otherwise, in the face of history, in the face of the record of the “conventions” of the American citizens, and in the face of all that the Supreme Court has hitherto decided, the Court must decide that the American citizen has never existed. The possibility that there should be such a decision is absolutely beyond conception. What the decision _will_ be was long ago foreshadowed and forecast by Daniel Webster. It would almost seem as if Webster had heard the Sheppard claim that the states made the Constitution and that the states had then agreed between themselves that the governments of thirty-six of the states, in combination, could command the American citizen in any matter of his individual freedom. It would almost seem as if Webster had heard Hughes deny, while his associate lawyers for the Eighteenth Amendment still asserted with Sheppard, that the Constitution was a compact between states and then had heard them all insist that the Fifth Article was a “grant” which made thirty-six governments of state citizens an omnipotent Parliament over all citizens of America.