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The trade unionists whom he offends know perfectly well that the blackleg is in the eye of the law no wrong-doer ; they therefore feel that the Courts are his protectors , and that , somehow or other , trade unions must be protected against the intervention of judges . Happily , crises arise from time to time in the history of any great state when , because national existence or national independence is at stake , the mass of a whole people feel that the authority of the nation is the one patent and the one certain political fact . But Frenchmen would with more difficulty maintain their French character if Quebec became a state of the Union and ceased to be a province of the Dominion . Thus Speakers elected by a Liberal majority have continued to occupy their office though the House of Commons be elected in which a Conservative majority predominates , whilst , on the other hand , a Speaker elected by a Conservative House of Commons has held the Speakership with public approval when the House of Commons exhibits a Liberal majority and is guided by a Cabinet of Liberals . His natural , his inevitable resource is to recur to writers of authority on the law , the history , or the practice of the constitution .