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But this presumption may , they have always maintained , be rebutted if any strong ground can be shown for holding that the electors did not really wish such a Bill to become an Act of Parliament . Empire , may by federalists be put down to the credit of federal government , though in matter of fact no two constitutions can , either in their details or in their spirit , bear less real resemblance than the democratic and , on the whole , unmilitary constitution of the United States and the autocratic Imperial and , above all , military government of Germany . But the possession of theoretically equal political rights does certainly give in England , or rather to be strictly accurate in the United Kingdom , to every British subject an equality which some British subjects do not possess in some of the Dominions . My aim in this Introduction has been to place before my readers the strongest argument against and also the strongest argument in favour of the introduction of the referendum into the constitution of England . Not a page of my lectures could have been written without constant reference to writers such as Blackstone , Hallam , Hearn , Gardiner , or Freeman , whose books are in the hands of every student .