“‘The Legislature of the U.S. whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem necessary, or on the application of two thirds of the Legislatures of the several States, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as parts thereof, when the same shall have been ratified by three fourths at least of the Legislatures of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Legislature of the U.S.’ “Mr. Hamilton 2ded. the motion. “Mr. Rutlidge said he never could agree to give a power by which the articles relating to slaves might be altered by the States not interested in that property and prejudiced against it. In order to obviate this objection, these words were added to the proposition: ‘provided that no amendments which may be made prior to the year 1808, shall in any manner affect the 4 & 5 sections of the VII article.’ The postponement being agreed to, “On the question On the proposition of Mr. Madison & Mr. Hamilton as amended “N.H. divd. Mas. ay. Ct. ay. N.J. ay. Pa. ay. Del. no. Md. ay. Va. ay. N.C. ay. S.C. ay. Geo. ay. (Ayes--9; noes--1; divided--1.)” II _Farrand_, 558, 559. No American citizen, now living or in the generations to come, if he values at all the human liberty which the entire Constitution was established to secure, can spend too much time in reading and understanding that short record. It is the record left by Madison himself, even though it be copied from the brief of the leading “constitutional” lawyer of 1920 who maintained his whole argument for the Eighteenth Amendment on the ground that we have been “subjects” of an omnipotent government, his clients, since the day, June 21, 1788, when that Fifth Article was enacted by the American people to secure “the Blessings of Liberty for themselves and their posterity.”