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By June 18 S. 2 ( i ) Proviso . These rules also deal with Ministers , with their responsibility , with their spheres of action , define the territory over which the sovereignty of the state extends and settle who are to be deemed subjects or citizens . 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 . It could not then possibly have been presented to the King for his assent till June 9 , 1914 ; it was not so presented to the King till September 18 , 1914 . Constitutional law , as the term is used in England , appears to include all rules which directly or indirectly affect the distribution or the exercise of the sovereign power in the state.12 Hence it includes ( among other things ) all rules which define the members of the sovereign power , all rules which regulate the relation of such members to each other , or which determine the mode in which the sovereign power , or the members thereof , exercise their authority . The language to this passage is impressive ; it stands curtailed but in substance unaltered in Stephen 's Commentaries .