In other words, the police power of the American Congress is strictly limited to the enumerated powers _of that kind_ granted by the citizens of America. And, although the fact does not seem to be generally known, it is _because_ the First Article vests in the sole Legislature of the whole American people nothing but _enumerated_ powers to interfere with the freedom of the individual American that our American government has received its universal tribute as a government of nothing but enumerated powers over a free people, who are its citizens. In the Constitution are provisions in separate Articles for the three great departments of government,--legislative, executive, and judicial. But there is this significant difference in the grants of powers to these departments: the First Article, treating of legislative powers, does not make a general grant of legislative power. It reads: “Article one, section one. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress,” etc.; and then, in Article 8, mentions and defines the legislative powers that are granted. By reason of the fact that there is no general grant of legislative power it has become an accepted constitutional rule that this is a government of enumerated powers. (Justice Brewer, in the Supreme Court, Kansas v. Colorado, 206 _U. S._ 46.) Among the _national_ powers, which _are_ enumerated in the First Article, there is one which (_whenever operative_) approximates the extensive police power of a state government to interfere with the freedom of its citizens. That is the war power of the Government of America. As the purpose of the Constitution of the American Government is to protect the freedom of the American and as such freedom needs effective protection from foreign attack, the Americans of that earlier generation made the war power of their government almost as unlimited as that of a despotic government. All history and their own human experience had taught them that the war power, if it was to be effective for their protection, must be practically unlimited. If we grasp this extent of the _American_ war power, we realize why our sole American government, without the grant of a new _national_ power to it, could validly enact what we know as the War Time Prohibition Statute, although without such a new grant, it was powerless to enact what we know as the Volstead Act or National Prohibition for time of peace. It is because the citizens of each state, in _their_ Constitution of _their_ national government, had given to it a general (although specifically limited) ability to interfere with their own human freedom in most matters, that each state government could validly make prohibition laws for its own citizens. It is because the _American_ citizens had not given to _their_ government any such general ability to interfere with _their_ freedom, that the _American_ Government, for any time except that of war, could not validly enact