THE FIRST VICTORY 



The outcome was a third mandate from the 

 people to proceed with that project. The 

 third mandate was now negatived as easily as 

 the first and the second had been. That being 

 the case, the most optimistic member of the 

 League might reasonably ask himself what 

 was the use of this line of attack, and wonder 

 if in America Jefferson's famous theory of the 

 consent of the governed as the basis of govern- 

 ment had slipped into the region of folk-lore 

 and myth. 



