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Its strongest recommendation is that it may keep in check the inordinate power now bestowed on the party machine . In 1914 the colonial policy of England is to grant to every Dominion absolute , unfettered , complete local autonomy ,38 in so far as such perfect self-government by a Dominion does not dearly interfere with loyalty of the Dominion to the Empire . The habit has now grown up that conferences should be held from time to time in England , at which shall be present the Premier of England and the Premier of each Dominion , for consultation and discussion on all matters concerning the interest and the policy of the Empire , and that such conferences should be from time to time held may now , it is submitted , be considered a moral right of each Dominion . The power of the Crown , i.e. of the British ministry , to veto or disallow in any way32 any Bill passed by the legislature of a Dominion , e.g . Any Dominion has now a full and admitted right to raise military or naval forces for its own defence . A Ministry who induced the House of Commons to pass an Act , e.g . This change has , like all other alterations , its weak side . The constitution indeed of a Dominion in general originates in and depends upon an Act , or Acts , of the Imperial Parliament ; and these constitutional statutes are assuredly liable to be changed by the Imperial Parliament . Thus the Crown , or in other words a British ministry , will now not veto or disallow any Bill passed by the legislature of a Dominion on the ground that such Bill is indirectly opposed to the interests of the United Kingdom , or contradicts legal principles generally upheld in England , e.g . It lies in the fact that the people 's veto is at once a democratic institution , and , owing to its merely negative character , may be a strictly conservative institution . Its tiquarj-ism . If the true meaning had been that a way or other easement admits of possession , and is taken possession of with the land to which it runs , and that its enjoyment is protected on the same grounds as possession in other cases , the thought could have been understood . The principle , therefore , of parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this , namely that " Parliament " has " the right to make or unmake any law whatever ; and further , that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament , " 8 and further that this right or 1 Compare the Introduction to the second edition of Law and Public Opinion in England during the Nineteenth Century .