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He does not know in effect how to deal with lawlessness which is based upon a fundamental difference of public opinion.52 For such difference makes it impossible that on a given topic the law should be in reality in accordance with public opinion . Again , the fact is clear that the assign got the benefit of the warranty to the first grantee , not of a new one to himself , as has been shown , and Bracton 's explanation of how this was worked out falls in with what has been seen of the course of the German and Anglo-Saxon law , and with the pervading thought of the Roman law . You are called upon to deal partly with statute law , partly with judge-made law ; you are forced to rely on Parliamentary enactments and also on judicial decisions , on authoritative dicta , and in many cases on mere inferences drawn from judicial doctrines ; it is often difficult to discriminate between prevalent custom and acknowledged right . The lectures were given and the book written with the sole object of explaining and illustrating three leading characteristics in the existing constitution of England ; they are now generally designated as the Sovereignty of Parliament , the Rule of Law , and the Conventions of the Constitution . It is conservative since it ensures the maintenance of any law or institution which the majority of the electors effectively wish to preserve . The rules determining the legal position of the Crown , the legal rights of the Crown 's Ministers , the constitution of the House of Lords , the constitution of the House of Commons , the laws which govern the established Church , the laws which determine the position of the non-established Churches , the laws which regulate the army , these and a hundred other laws form part of the law of the constitution , and are as truly part of the law of the land as the articles of the Constitution of the United States form part of the law of the Union .