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The Law of the Constitution was first published in 1885 . It may be added , that on the particular occasion the Conservatives gained both influence and prestige by the ability with which Peel , though in a minority , resisted in Parliament the attempt to compel his resignation from office ; for during this parliamentary battle he was able to bring home to the electors the knowledge that the Conservative minority , though defeated at the election , had gained thereby a great accession of strength . The Act as assented to by the King was in substance identical with the Bill sent up to the House of Lords in the first of the three sessions on January 16 , 1913 . The idea which lies at the bottom of federalism is that each of the separate states should have approximately equal political rights and should thereby be able to maintain the " limited independence " ( if the term may be used ) meant to be secured by the terms of federal union . The first section of 6 Anne , c. 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 . 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 . He has become already , by the publication of his Responsible Government in the Dominions , an acknowledged authority on all matters connected with the relation between England and her Colonies . The last thirty years , and especially the fourteen years which have elapsed since the beginning of the twentieth century , show a very noticeable though comparatively slight approximation towards one another of what may be called the official law of England and the droit administratif of France . The constitution was marked by more than one transcendent quality which in the eyes of our fathers raised it far above the imitations , counterfeits , or , parodies , which have been set up during the last hundred years throughout the civilised world ; no precise date could be named as the day of its birth ; no definite body of persons could claim to be its creators , no one could point to the document which contained its clauses ; it was in short a thing by itself , which Englishmen and foreigners alike should " venerate , where they are not able presently to comprehend . The second object of this Introduction is to state and analyse the main constitutional ideas which may fairly be called new , either because they have come into existence during the last thirty years , or because ( what is much more frequently the case ) they have in England during that period begun to exert a new and noticeable influence . To an Englishman who still holds , as was universally held by every English statesman till at the very earliest 1880 , that the union between England and Scotland was the wisest and most fortunate among the achievements of British statesmanship , there is great difficulty in understanding the new belief that the federalisation of the United Kingdom will confer benefit upon any of the inhabitants of Great Britain.106 A candid critic may be able to account for the existence of a political creed which he does not affect to share . The subject is dealt with by no means exhaustively , but with a view in the first place to bring out the causes of the demand in England for the referendum ; and in the next place to consider carefully and examine in turn first by far the strongest argument against , and secondly the strongest argument in favour of introducing the referendum into the constitution of England . Here we see that , in order to entitle the assign to the benefit of the first grantor 's warranty , assigns must be mentioned in the original grant and covenant .