Constitutional history -- United States; United States -- Politics and government; United States. Constitution. 18th Amendment
As we shall later find herein, it is the claim of all who believe the
new Amendment to be in our Constitution, although they have hitherto
not understood their own claim, that the words of the Article, which
appear in that short record, are the words which changed the American
individuals, free men from July 4, 1776, into subjects of an omnipotent
government, composed of the legislative governments of a fractional
part of the states. Moreover, as we shall also later learn herein,
this absurd and amazing claim is based wholly on the monumental error
of assuming, without the faintest suggestion or proffer of support
for such an assumption, that the new wording of the Fifth Article, as
proposed by Madison on September 10, changed the amending Article into
a grant of ability to make every kind of Article. The monumental error
fails to see that Madison merely added to the previous mention of the
unlimited ability of the people or “conventions” a similar mention of
the existing limited ability of the state legislative governments to
make _federal_ Articles or Articles which neither exercise nor grant
power to interfere with human freedom. Moreover, as we shall also
learn later herein, the extraordinary and unfounded assumption (that
the amending Article was changed on September 10 into a _grant_ of
ability to make Articles instead of a recognition and mention of two
existing different abilities, one of which had always been mentioned
therein) has been hitherto concurred in by every one who has challenged
the validity of the Eighteenth Amendment. _They_ have only differed
from the supporters of the new Amendment in contending that the
impossible grant, absurdly imagined to have been made by the grantors
to _themselves_ as well as to state legislatures, _was_ a _grant_ of
limited ability but did not include the ability to make an amendment
such as the Eighteenth.
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