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392 392 HARVARD LAW REVIEW. imported articles, not as their interests, but as our interests, dictate. If we are to undertake the government of dependent countries, with any hope of gaining credit for ourselves, we must enter upon the task with a single eye to promoting the interests of the people governed, and we must content ourselves with such material advantages as may accrue to us incidentally from a faithful dis- charge of our duty. Does the Constitution of the United States prevent our attempting such a role ? If it does, one will be driven to the conclusion that the authors of that instrument were either less successful in saying what they meant, or else were less sagacious and far-sighted, than they have had the reputation of being. C. C. Langdell. NOTE. The numerous editions of the Constitution of the United States vary somewhat in their mode of dividing the diflFerent sections into paragraphs, and in numbering the paragraphs. For example, in Art. I, Section 9, some editions print in one paragraph the matter which, in the preceding article, is treated as constituting subsec- tions 5 and 6 ; and this, of course, changes the numbering of the remaining paragraphs. So in Art. 2, Section i, some editions do not number the third paragraph, it having been superseded by the 12th Amendment. Some editions also print and number the form of oath at the end of the section as a separate paragraph. In the preceding article the third paragraph is regarded as numbered, and the form of oath is not regarded as a separate paragraph ; and hence the section is referred to as containing eight subsections.