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Hence he could only summon those from whom his grantor derived his title . The Home Rule Bill was introduced into the House of Commons during the first of the three successive sessions on April 11 , 1912 ; it passed its second reading in the House of Commons during that session on May 9 , 1912 ; it was rejected by the House of Lords either actually or constructively19 in each of the three successive sessions . General Scott and General Lee alike had been trained as officers of the American Army ; each was a Virginian ; each of them was determined from the outbreak of the Civil War to follow the dictates of his own conscience ; each was placed in a position as painful as could be occupied by a soldier of bravery and honour ; each was a victim of that double allegiance which is all but inherent in federalism . The period of now more than two centuries which has elapsed since what used to be called the " Glorious Revolution , " filled as those two centuries are with change and with growth , seems hardly to have attracted the attention of a writer whom lack , not of knowledge , but of will has alone prevented from sketching out the annals of our modern constitution . And no doubt the referendum , if ever established in England , may have the effect , which it already has in Switzerland , of making it possible that a minister or a Cabinet , supported on the whole by the electorate , shall retain office honestly and openly , though some proposal made by the Prime Minister and his colleagues and assented to by both Houses of Parliament is , through the referendum , condemned by the electorate . If the right claimed is one of those which are regarded as incident to land , as explained in the following Lecture , the disseisor will have it . There is no reason to suppose that Madame Roland ever claimed parliamentary votes for herself or for her sex . Nor again is it at all inconceivable that at some other period the cause of woman suffrage 85 Burke , Correspondence , i. pp . The first is appropriate to 1884 , the second is appropriate to 1914 - date did intend to retain for the Imperial Parliament , and the Imperial Government as representing such Parliament , a real and effective control over the action of the ministry and the legislature of each self-governing colony in so far as that control was not palpably inconsistent with independence as regards the management of strictly local affairs . But it is idle to pretend that Ireland has ever desired federalism in the sense in which it was desired by the colonies which originally formed the United States , or by the inhabitants of what are now the provinces of the Canadian Dominion . From each class he may learn much , but for reasons which I am about to lay before you for consideration , he is liable to be led by each class of authors somewhat astray in his attempt to ascertain the field of his labours and the mode of working it ; he will find , unless he can obtain some clue to guide his steps , that the whole province of so-called " constitutional law " is a sort of maze in which the wanderer is perplexed by unreality , by antiquarianism , and by conventionalism . Ostensibly that is done to balance the load on their dockets , allow for time off , and other factors , but we have seen that it is sometimes an opening to the corrupt practice of assigning a case to a judge who is not impartial in that case . So far as we have gone , we have found that , wherever [ 381 ] one party steps into the rights or obligations of another , without in turn filling the situation of fact of which those rights or obligations are the legal consequences , the substitution is explained by a fictitious identification of the two individuals , which is derived from the analogy of the inheritance . During the Palmerstonian era , at any rate , a few of such men each possessed an authority inside and outside the House which is hardly claimed by any member now-a-days who neither has nor is expected to obtain a seat in any Cabinet . Still it may be allowable to an author writing in 1914 , though more than half blinded , as must be every critic of the age in which he lives , by the ignorance and the partialities of his own day , to remember that the present has its teaching no less than the past or the future . To put the same thing in a somewhat different shape , " constitutional law , " as the expression is used in England , both by the public and by authoritative writers , consists of two elements . I venture to assure all my readers that this forgetfulness of England and by England I here mean the country known , and famous , as England before the legal creation either of Great Britain or of the United Kingdom is a fashion opposed both to common sense and to common justice , and , like all opposition to the nature of things , will ultimately come to nothing . of the powers , both of the King and of the Government . From both these writers we expect to learn , and do learn much , but , as in the case of Mr. Freeman , though we learn much from our teacher which is of value , we do not learn precisely what as lawyers we are in search of . Each judge thus selected would serve for a limited term , perhaps a year or two , perhaps only on a part-time basis .