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Then , too , it is thought that whereas English statesmen find it difficult to regulate the relation between Great Britain and Ireland , the task will become easier if the same statesmen undertake to transform , by some hocus-pocus of political legerdemain , the whole United Kingdom into a federal government consisting of at least four different states . We know further that party government , which to many among the wisest of modern constitutionalists appears to be the essence of England 's far-famed constitution , inevitably gives rise to partisanship , and at last produces a machine which may well lead to political corruption and may , when this evil is escaped , lead to the strange but acknowledged result that a not unfairly elected legislature may misrepresent the permanent will of the electors . Thus the eminent man who advocated the desirability of every opinion obtaining a hearing in the House of Commons , used on another occasion the following words : " It is an essential and integral feature of our policy that we shall go forward with the task of making the House of Commons not only the mouthpiece but the mirror of the national mind . In other words , the House of Commons often fails to be , as it is sometimes expressed , " the mirror of the national mind , " or to exactly reflect the will of the electors . Political inventiveness has in general fallen far short of the originality displayed in other fields than politics by the citizens of progressive or civilised States .