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Cf. Ellen v. Topp , 6 Exch . By June 18 S. 2 ( i ) Proviso . The Supreme Court , e.g ., of Massachusetts may be called upon to determine in effect whether a law passed by the legislature of Massachusetts is , or is not , constitutional ; and the decision of the Court will certainly meet with obedience . It was made in England before the end of the eighteenth century ,83 but no systematic , or at any rate noticeable , movement to obtain for Englishwomen the right to vote for members of Parliament can be carried back much earlier than 1866-67 , when it was supported in the House of Commons by J. S. Mill. Wollstonecraft , published 1792 . Parliament , in the second place , had long before 1884 practically admitted the truth of the doctrine in vain pressed upon his contemporaries by Burke ,23 when insisting upon the folly of the attempt made by the Parliament of England to exert as much absolute power in Massachusetts as in Middlesex , that a real limit to the exercise of sovereignty is imposed not by the laws of man but by the nature of things , and that it was vain for a parliamentary or any other sovereign to try to exert equal power throughout the whole of an immense Empire . xliv-xlvi , and compare the Trade Union Act , 1913 , ibid . In the eyes , at any rate , of thinkers who share the moral convictions prevalent in most civilised states , it must seem a gain that the Imperial Parliament should have been able in 1834 to prohibit the existence of slavery in any country subject to the British Crown , and should be able to-day to forbid throughout the whole Empire the revival of the Slave Trade , or of judicial torture . But he would soon see that the articles of the constitution required a knowledge of the Articles of Confederation ; that the opinions of Washington , of Hamilton , and generally of the ' Tathers , " as one sometimes hears them called in America , threw light on the meaning of various constitutional articles ; and further , that the meaning of the constitution could not be adequately understood by any one who did not take into account the situation of the colonies before the separation from England and the rules of common law , as well as the general conceptions of law and justice inherited by English colonists from their English forefathers . Hence the invention of that self-contradictory idea of " peaceful picketing , " which is no more capable of real existence than would be " peaceful war " or " unoppressive oppression " ; hence , too , that triumph of legalised wrong-doing sanctioned by the fourth section of the Trade Disputes Act ,511906 .