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They are each concerned with the constitution , but from a different aspect . The harm wrought is , that unreal language obscures or conceals the true extent between the actual state of the government and the theory . If one state of a federation greatly exceed in its numbers and in its resources the power of each of the other states , and still more if such " dominant partner , " to use a current expression , greatly exceed the whole of the other Confederated States in population and in wealth , the confederacy will be threatened with two dangers . Take as countries which exhibit this state of feeling the United States , the English federated colonies , the Swiss Confederation , and the German Empire , and contrast with this special condition of opinion the deliberate rejection by all Italian patriots of federalism , which in the case of Italy presented many apparent advantages , and the failure of union between Sweden and Norway to produce any desire for unity or even for a continued political connection , though these Scandinavian lands differ little from each other in race , in religion , in language , or in their common interest to maintain their independence against neighbouring and powerful countries . The terms used by the commentator were , when he used them , unreal , and known6 to be so . The work has already gone through seven editions ; each successive edition , including the seventh , has been brought up to date , as the expression goes , by amending it so as to embody any change in or affecting the constitution which may have occurred since the last preceding edition . the temper of fanatical adoration by just hatred of those " doctors of the modern school , " who , when he wrote , were renewing the rule of barbarism in the form of the reign of terror ; we cannot exactly echo the fervent self-complacency of Hallam , natural as it was to an Englishman who saw the institutions of England standing and flourishing , at a time when the attempts of foreign reformers to combine freedom with order had ended in ruin . And England , with the fervent consent of the people of every land subject to the rule of our King , has thus exchanged the prosperity of peace for the dangers and labours of war , not for the sake of acquiring new territory or of gaining additional military glory , for of these things she has enough and more than enough already , but for the sake of enforcing the plainest rules of international justice and the plainest dictates of common humanity . They have become only a little more unreal during the century and more which has since elapsed . The independence of the Dominion , in short , means nowadays as much of independence as is compatible with each Dominion remaining part of the Empire . 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 worth while here to note what is the true injury to the study of law produced by the tendency of Blackstone , and other less famous constitutionalists , to adhere to unreal expressions . General Scott and General Lee alike had been trained as officers of the American Army ; each was a Virginian ; each of them was determined from the outbreak of the Civil War to follow the dictates of his own conscience ; each was placed in a position as painful as could be occupied by a soldier of bravery and honour ; each was a victim of that double allegiance which is all but inherent in federalism .