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Parliament made a legal though unprecedented use of its powers . His true answer is that many so-called democratic principles , as also many so-called conservative principles , are in reality not principles at all but war-cries , or shibboleths which may contain a good deal of temporary or relative truth but are mixed up with a vast amount of error . They are , first , the legislative sovereignty of Parliament ; 22 secondly , the universal rule or supremacy throughout the constitution of ordinary law ; 23 and thirdly ( though here we tread on more doubtful and speculative ground ) , the dependence in the last resort of the conventions upon the law of the constitution.24 To examine , to elucidate , to test these three principles , forms , at any rate ( whatever be the result of the investigation ) , a suitable introduction to the study of the law of the constitution . There is a longstanding debate concerning how best to select judges . No one who reads the last and the strangest of the biographies of Parnell can doubt that " Ireland a Nation " was the cry which met his own instinctive feeling no less than the wishes of his followers , except in so far as their desires pointed towards a revolutionary change in the tenure of land rather than towards the claim for national independence .