but the people will have the control they need
either from the states or from the National Government; and if
the states fail to furnish it in due measure, sooner or later
constructions of the Constitution will be found to vest the
power where it will be exercised--in the National Government.
The true and only way to preserve state authority is to be
found in the awakened conscience of the states, their
broadened views and higher standard of responsibility to the
general public; in effective legislation by the states, in
conformity to the general moral sense of the country; and in
the vigorous exercise for the general public good of that
state authority which is to be preserved.

Those words, spoken fifteen years ago, were prophetic. Moreover, they
are as true to-day as when they were uttered.

Will the people see these things in time? Americans with pride in their
country's past and confidence in her future dare not say No. The
awakening may be slow. Currents of popular will are not readily turned.
It is hard to make the people think. But if leaders and teachers do
their part American intelligence and prudence will assert themselves,
and the slogan of an awakened public sentiment may yet be: "Back to the
Constitution!"

APPENDIX

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

WE THE PEOPLE of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect
Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the
common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of
Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this
CONSTITUTION for the United States of America.

ARTICLE I.

SECTION 1. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a
Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House
of Representatives.

SECTION 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members
chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the
Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for
Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.

No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the
Age of twenty-five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United
States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State
in which he shall be chosen.

Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the seve