On the other hand, the leaders and lawyers of the present generation have been educated to think that _property_ is the one important right which constitutions are made to protect. Wherefore it would be extraordinary if any of them knew that the American people constituted all their governments, and made their distribution of _national_ powers among those governments and reserved to themselves many _national_ powers, all for the main purpose of securing individual life and liberty, and _then_, the enjoyment of property. That these leaders and lawyers, so educated by experience, have not known these things or understood at all the constitutional Articles, an accurate understanding of whose meaning depends upon a knowledge which their education has withheld from them, the story of the last five years amply demonstrates. In its detail, that story and that demonstration will be later dwelt upon herein. Fortunately, we average Americans of this generation have not received any _wrong_ education in the relative importance of human life and liberty to property in the eyes of the American people who constituted all governments in America, and in the constitutions which those people made to secure all three human rights against even the usurpations of delegated power by the very governments which those constitutions created. Our wrong education in that respect has undoubtedly been attempted. The events of the last five years, however, while demonstrating the thoroughly wrong education of our leaders, have also shown that the average Americans still sense something extraordinary about governments exercising undelegated power over citizens of which they are not the governments and about governments claiming ability to give to themselves and to other governments undelegated _national_ powers to interfere with individual human freedom. It has been entirely the result of the wrong education of our leaders and “constitutional” lawyers that we have not been told the legal fact _that_, and the constitutional reason _why_, these extraordinary performances on the part of governments in America have been just as void as they are extraordinary.