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If that had been the notion , there would have been a contract directly binding the first grantor to the assign , as soon as the land was sold , and thus there would have been two warranties arising from the same clause , - - one to the first grantee , a second to the assign . The expression " veto " reminds us also that those who advocate the introduction of the referendum into England in fact demand that the electors , who are now admittedly the political sovereign of England , should be allowed to play the part in legislation which was really played , and with popular approval , by e.g . But in spite of or perhaps because of this facile eloquence , the authority of individual M.P.s who neither sit in the Cabinet nor lead the Opposition , has suffered diminution . The Parliament Act greatly increases the authority of the Speaker with respect to Bills to be passed under that Act. No Bill can be so passed unless he shall have time after time certified in writing under his hand , and signed by him that the provisions of the Parliament Act have been strictly followed . Federalism again would mean , in any country where English ideas prevail , the predominance of legalism or , in other words , a general willingness to yield to the authority of the law courts . The well-known words of Burke , however , should always be borne in mind : " The king 's negative to bills , " he says , " is one of the most indisputed of the royal prerogatives ; and it extends to all cases whatsoever . Happily , crises arise from time to time in the history of any great state when , because national existence or national independence is at stake , the mass of a whole people feel that the authority of the nation is the one patent and the one certain political fact . The English law of the subject is found on examination to be the same as the Roman in extent , reason , and expression . 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 .