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But he would soon see that the articles of the constitution required a knowledge of the Articles of Confederation ; that the opinions of Washington , of Hamilton , and generally of the ' Tathers , " as one sometimes hears them called in America , threw light on the meaning of various constitutional articles ; and further , that the meaning of the constitution could not be adequately understood by any one who did not take into account the situation of the colonies before the separation from England and the rules of common law , as well as the general conceptions of law and justice inherited by English colonists from their English forefathers . If now it should be again asked , at the end of this long discussion , where the line is to be drawn between these two classes of covenants , the answer is necessarily vague in view of the authorities . 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 . C was sued by D , claiming a better title , C practically got the benefit of A 's warranty , / 2 / because , when he summoned B , B would summon A , and thus A [ 373 ] would defend the case in the end . It has been shown that a similar limitation of the benefits of the ancient [ 380 ] warranty was required by its earlier history before the assign was allowed to sue , and that the fiction by which he got that right could not extend it beyond that limit .