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Council ,14 and even after the commencement of Parliamentary legislation there existed side by side with it a system of royal legislation under the form of Ordinances ,1 S and ( at a later period ) of Proclamations . No one really supposes that a Government could in ordinary circumstances be formed in which two opposite parties balanced one another . Little reflection , however , is required in order to see that none of these federations resemble the constitution of England either in their historical development or in their actual circumstances . Yet one or two facts may be noted which , though they do not solve the problem before us , do to some slight extent suggest the line in which its solution must be sought for. Parliamentary government may under favourable circumstances go a great way towards securing such blessings as the prevalence of personal liberty and the free expression of opinion . But of things annexed to land , it is otherwise , as of commons , advowsons , and the like appendants or appurtenances .... The exercise itself is In these circumstances it is arguable that the Parliament Act has transformed the sovereignty of Parliament into the sovereignty of the King and the House of Commons . He is deeply , sometimes excessively , concerned with the question of " origins . The second is the combination of local autonomy absolute , unfettered , complete with loyalty to a common head , co-operation , spontaneous and unforced , for common interests and purposes , and , I may add , a common trusteeship , whether it be in India or in the Crown Colonies , or in the Protectorates , or within our own borders , of the interests and fortunes of fellow-subjects who have not yet attained , or perhaps in some cases may never attain , to the full stature of self-government . But there is no single statute which is more significant either as to the theory or as to the practical working of the constitution than the Septennial Act.6 The circumstances of its enactment and the nature of the Act itself merit therefore special attention .