Article are reserved to the “conventions” of American citizens “and can be exercised only by them or on further grant from them”--The “conventions,” having secured the liberty of American citizens from all government interference except under the First Article grants, end their great work. XIV. SEVENTEEN ARTICLES RESPECT HUMAN FREEDOM _Page 212_ Hamilton’s conviction, that all Amendments would be of the federal kind which legislatures can make, verified by the seventeen amendments prior to 1917--As Supreme Court has repeatedly held, the first ten Amendments merely declared what was already in Constitution--A relevant and important declaration in the Tenth is that the entire Constitution gives no power of any kind to state legislatures--Amazing modern Tory concept that these ten Amendments are an American Magna Charta or compact between a master government and its “subjects”--Madison and Supreme Court on the “impious doctrine” that Americans are “subjects”--Eleventh and Twelfth Amendments have naught to do with individual freedom--Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth neither exercise nor create government power to interfere with human liberty--On the contrary, their purpose and effect are to make human liberty universal--Sixteenth removes a federal limitation, in favor of the states, from a power the “conventions” gave to Congress--Seventeenth relates only to the election of Senators--When 1917 opens, Congress has no power to interfere with individual liberty of American citizens which Congress did not have in 1790--When 1917 opens, no legislatures, since July 4, 1776, have dared to interfere with the individual liberty of the American citizens outside the First Article grants or have dared to attempt to create a new power so to interfere--When 1917 opens, we have not become “subjects” but still are citizens of America. XV. THE EXILED TORY ABOUT TO RETURN _Page 231_