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The referendum futher will promote or tend to promote among the electors a kind of intellectual honesty which , as our constitution now works , is being rapidly destroyed . It is quite possible honestly to regret the time when Edinburgh possessed the most intellectual society to be found in Great Britain or Ireland . Whether English electors are now strongly disposed to confide to the decision of judges questions which excite strong political feeling is doubtful . The 670 members of the House of Commons together with the 600 and odd members of the House of Lords112 contain a far greater proportion of educated men endowed with marked intellectual power and trained in the exercise of some high political virtues than would generally be found among , say , 1270 electors collected merely by chance from an electorate of more man 8,000,000 . For servitudes , such as rights of way , light , and the like , form the chief class of prescriptive rights , and our law of servitudes is mainly Roman . They are , first , the legislative sovereignty of Parliament ; 22 secondly , the universal rule or supremacy throughout the constitution of ordinary law ; 23 and thirdly ( though here we tread on more doubtful and speculative ground ) , the dependence in the last resort of the conventions upon the law of the constitution.24 To examine , to elucidate , to test these three principles , forms , at any rate ( whatever be the result of the investigation ) , a suitable introduction to the study of the law of the constitution . The Roman Republic and the Roman Empire did not produce thinkers or writers who did as much for the progress of mankind as was done by the philosophers , the historians , and the poets of Greece , and the fruits of Greek genius were mainly due to the intellectual achievements of Athens during not much more than a century . / 1 / It would almost seem that he considered a prescriptive right enough to support the action , and it is pretty clear that he thought that a disseisor would have had the same rights as the plaintiff . In the first Lecture of this course the thought with which we have to deal was shown in its theological stage , to borrow Comte 's well-known phraseology , as where an axe was made the object of criminal process ; and also in the metaphysical stage , where the language of personification alone survived , but survived to cause confusion of reasoning . In explaining the succession which is worked out between buyer and seller for the purpose of creating a prescriptive right , such as a right of way over neighboring land to the land bought and sold , it was shown that one who , instead of purchasing the land , had wrongfully possessed himself of it by force , would not be treated as a successor , and would get no benefit from the previous use of the way by his disseisee . Is it not one example of the perplexities involved in any plan of Imperial federalism , and of the intellectual levity with which they are met , that our Federalists never have given a dear and , so to speak , intelligible idea of what is to be under a federal government the real position not of the United Kingdom but of that small country limited in size , but still of immense power , which is specifically known by the august name of England ? This fact has in recent days become so patent that eminent thinkers are to be found who certainly use language which implies that the authority or the sovereignty of the nation , or even the conception of the national will , is a sort of political or metaphysical fiction which wise men will do well to discard . / 1 / It was assumed that the covenant was not so made as to attach to the manor , and the court , observing that the service was rather spiritual than temporal , were inclined to think that the heir could sue .