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Under the English system elaborate and detailed statutes are passed , and the power to make rules under the statute , e.g . But the popular opinion on this trifling point springs from a failure to understand one of the great antinomies of the law , which must now be explained . What is true is that the course of events , and the way in which the steam-engine and the telegraph bring the world everywhere closer together , are unfavourable to that prominence in any country which at one time was attainable by particular localities , or by small bodies of persons living somewhat apart from the general course of national life . The self-governing colonies , on the other hand , up at any rate till 1884 , just because they were more and more left alone and free to manage their own affairs , though they occasionally resented the interference of the English Government with colonial legislation , were on the whole contented with things as they stood . House of Commons untouched ( ibid .