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The work has already gone through seven editions ; each successive edition , including the seventh , has been brought up to date , as the expression goes , by amending it so as to embody any change in or affecting the constitution which may have occurred since the last preceding edition . But the authority of the House of Lords has been gravely diminished , whilst the authority of the House of Commons , or rather of the majority thereof during any one Parliament , has been immensely increased . It may be well , therefore , to state with some precision why , to one who has studied the characteristics of federal government , it must seem in the highest degree improbable that Home Rule all round , or the federal solution , will be of any benefit whatever to any part of the United Kingdom . Hence , on the whole , the correct legal statement of the actual condition of things is that sovereignty still resides in Parliament , i.e. in the King and the two Houses acting together , but that the Parliament Act has greatly increased the share of sovereignty possessed by the House of Commons and has greatly diminished the share thereof belonging to the House of Lords . Important alterations have most certainly taken place ; these may , for the most part , be brought under two different heads which for the sake of clearness should be distinguished from each other , namely , first , new rules or customs which still continue to be mere constitutional understandings or conventions , and , secondly , understandings or conventions which have since 1884 either been converted into laws or are closely connected with changes of law.64 These may appropriately be termed " enacted conventions . The result of a state of things which is not yet fully recognised inside or outside Parliament is that the Cabinet , under a leader who has fully studied and mastered the arts of modern parliamentary warfare , can defy , on matters of the highest importance , the possible or certain will of the nation . These facts may rekindle among the youth of England as of France the sense that to be young is very heaven ; these facts may console old men whom political disillusion and disappointment which they deem undeserved may have tempted towards despair , and enable them to rejoice with calmness and gravity that they have lived long enough to see the day when the solemn call to the performance of a grave national duty has united every man and every class of our common country in the determination to defy the strength , the delusions , and the arrogance of a militarised nation , and at all costs to secure for the civilised world the triumph of freedom , of humanity , and of justice . No one really supposes that a Government could in ordinary circumstances be formed in which two opposite parties balanced one another . / 1 / Covenant was brought for a freehold under Edward I ., / 2 / and under Edward III . The traditional feuds of Ireland and the ecclesiastical grievances of Wales , the demand of some further recognition of that Scottish nationality , for which no sensible Englishman shows or is tempted to show the least disrespect , all deserve and receive exaggerated attention . These may be brought under two heads ; they are most dearly and briefly exhibited if under each head is stated the argument of the Suffragist and the answer or reasoning in reply of the Anti-Suffragist . The problem was brought home to me back in the 1980s when an incompetent and prejudiced district court judge in Texas , where such judges are elected , who had been voted the worst judge in the district by the lawyers there , was nominated for and elected to the Texas Supreme Court , with the support of those same lawyers , as a way to get him out of the district .