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Now rules or practices of this kind must inevitably restrict the power of bringing into a Swiss Cabinet all the best political talent to be found in Switzerland . But then this admission , while it does away with some of the difficulties besetting the policy which is miscalled Imperial federalism , raises a whole body of difficult and all but unanswerable questions . Then , too , it is thought that whereas English statesmen find it difficult to regulate the relation between Great Britain and Ireland , the task will become easier if the same statesmen undertake to transform , by some hocus-pocus of political legerdemain , the whole United Kingdom into a federal government consisting of at least four different states . The new convention , which all but compels a Ministry defeated at a general election to resign office , is , on the face of it , an acknowledgment that the electorate constitutes politically the true sovereign power.65 It also tends to convert a general election into a decision that a particular party shall hold office for the duration of the newly-elected Parliament and , in some instances , into the election of a particular statesman as Prime Minister for that period.66 This new convention is the sign of many minor political or constitutional changes , such , for example , as the introduction of the habit , quite unknown not only to statesmen as far removed from us as Pitt , but to Peel , to Lord John Russell , or to Lord Palmerston , of constantly addressing , not only when out of office but also when in office , speeches to some body of electors and hence to the whole country . The argument now returns to the English law , fortified with some general conclusions . This is of course the case with every railway Act , but no one will realise the full action , generally the very beneficial action of Parliamentary sovereignty , who does not look through a volume or two of what are called Local and Private Acts . Finchden : a fortiori in this case ; for there the action [ 397 ] was maintained because the plaintiff was tenant of the land from which the suit was due , and here he is tenant of the manor where the chapel is . Indeed , he even says that the land " is erected into a legal or fictitious person , and is styled ' praedium dominans . But the mere consonance of a given arrangement with some received doctrine , such as " the sovereignty of the people , " must with a thoughtful man carry little weight , except in so far as this harmony with prevalent ideas promises permanence to some suggested reform or beneficial institution . Conversely as to the benefit of warranties made to a deceased grantee , his heir was the only person interested to enforce such warranties , because the land descended to him . It is perhaps surprising that more attention has not been paid to the alternative of sortition selection by a random process perhaps interleaved with some kind of examination process to screen out unqualified contenders . It also allows a child process to accomplish more immediately after accept ( ) returns ( because the request is already available to be read ) so there is less context switching . It may be well , therefore , to state with some precision why , to one who has studied the characteristics of federal government , it must seem in the highest degree improbable that Home Rule all round , or the federal solution , will be of any benefit whatever to any part of the United Kingdom . The second object of this Introduction is to state and analyse the main constitutional ideas which may fairly be called new , either because they have come into existence during the last thirty years , or because ( what is much more frequently the case ) they have in England during that period begun to exert a new and noticeable influence . Wichingham , J. : If the king grants warren to another who is tenant of the manor , he shall have warren , & c .; but the warren will not pass by the grant [ of the manor ] , because the warren is not appendant to the manor . Hansard.21 The gist of the decision in that case is that a libellous document did not cease to be a libel because it was published by the order of the House of Commons , or because the House subsequently resolved that the power of publishing the report which contained it , was an essential incident to the constitutional functions of Parliament .