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They certainly did not display any marked desire to secede from the Empire . Nothing gives a more vivid idea of English sentiment with regard to the constitution towards the end of the eighteenth century than the satirical picture of national pride to be found in Goldsmith 's Citizen of the World , Letter IV . The second is the combination of local autonomy absolute , unfettered , complete with loyalty to a common head , co-operation , spontaneous and unforced , for common interests and purposes , and , I may add , a common trusteeship , whether it be in India or in the Crown Colonies , or in the Protectorates , or within our own borders , of the interests and fortunes of fellow-subjects who have not yet attained , or perhaps in some cases may never attain , to the full stature of self-government . The time has come when the fact ought to be generally admitted that the amount of government , that is of coercion , of individuals or classes by the state , which is necessary to the welfare or even to the existence of a civilised community , cannot permanently co-exist with the effective belief that deference to public opinion is in all cases the sole or the necessary basis of a democracy . House of Commons that the Speaker who presides over the debates of the House , though elected by a party , has for at least a century and more tried , and generally tried with success , to be the representative and guide of the whole House and not to be either the leader or the servant of a party . Is it credible that , for instance , the peoples of India will see with indifference this trusteeship pass from the hands of an Imperial Parliament ( which has more or less learned to think imperially , and in England has maintained the equal political rights of all British subjects ) into the hands of a new-made Imperial Congress which will 99 Sir Joseph Ward is an eminent colonial statesman ; he is also an ardent Imperialist of the colonial type .