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Some means must , many Englishmen believe , be found for the diminution of evils which are under a large electorate the natural , if not the necessary , outcome of our party system . In 1914 the colonial policy of England is to grant to every Dominion absolute , unfettered , complete local autonomy ,38 in so far as such perfect self-government by a Dominion does not dearly interfere with loyalty of the Dominion to the Empire . I venture to assure all my readers that this forgetfulness of England and by England I here mean the country known , and famous , as England before the legal creation either of Great Britain or of the United Kingdom is a fashion opposed both to common sense and to common justice , and , like all opposition to the nature of things , will ultimately come to nothing . When we contemplate the theory of the British government , we see the King invested with the most absolute personal impunity ; with a power of rejecting laws , which have been resolved upon by both Houses of Parliament ; of conferring by his charter , upon any set or succession of men he pleases , the privilege of sending representatives into one House of Parliament , as by his immediate appointment he can place whom he will in the other . It may be added , that on the particular occasion the Conservatives gained both influence and prestige by the ability with which Peel , though in a minority , resisted in Parliament the attempt to compel his resignation from office ; for during this parliamentary battle he was able to bring home to the electors the knowledge that the Conservative minority , though defeated at the election , had gained thereby a great accession of strength . Each judge thus selected would serve for a limited term , perhaps a year or two , perhaps only on a part-time basis . If the right claimed is one of those which are regarded as incident to land , as explained in the following Lecture , the disseisor will have it . Pakenham brought covenant as heir of the covenantee against a prior , for breach of a covenant made by the defendant 's predecessor with the plaintiff 's great - grandfather , that the prior and convent should sing every week in a chapel in his manor , for him and his servants . The Home Rule Bill was introduced into the House of Commons during the first of the three successive sessions on April 11 , 1912 ; it passed its second reading in the House of Commons during that session on May 9 , 1912 ; it was rejected by the House of Lords either actually or constructively19 in each of the three successive sessions . such as Coke served the cause both of justice and of freedom , and served it when it could have been defended by no other weapons . My object in publishing the work is to provide students with a manual which may impress these leading principles on their minds , and thus may enable them to study with benefit in Blackstone 's Commentaries and other treatises of the like nature those legal topics which , taken together , make up the constitutional law of England . Hence he could only summon those from whom his grantor derived his title . The above considerations taken as a whole afford some explanation of a demand for that referendum which , though it originates in Switzerland , flourishes in reality , though not in name , in almost every state of the American Commonwealth . Democratic sentiment , further , if not democratic principle , demands that law should on the whole correspond with public opinion ; but when a large body of citizens not only are opposed to some law but question the moral right of the state to impose or maintain a given law , our honest democrat feels deeply perplexed how to act . So far as we have gone , we have found that , wherever [ 381 ] one party steps into the rights or obligations of another , without in turn filling the situation of fact of which those rights or obligations are the legal consequences , the substitution is explained by a fictitious identification of the two individuals , which is derived from the analogy of the inheritance . It is pre-eminently desirable that every opinion bona fide existing among the electors should be represented in the House of Commons in as nearly as possible the same proportion in which it exists among the electors , or , to use popular language , among the nation . Whether the warning which his words certainly contain was unnecessary , or whether his implied prophecy of evU has not already been partially fulfilled or may not at some not distant date obtain more complete fulfilment , are inquiries which must be answered by the candour and the thoughtfulness of my readers . The expression " veto " reminds us also that those who advocate the introduction of the referendum into England in fact demand that the electors , who are now admittedly the political sovereign of England , should be allowed to play the part in legislation which was really played , and with popular approval , by e.g . 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 . Yet one or two facts may be noted which , though they do not solve the problem before us , do to some slight extent suggest the line in which its solution must be sought for. Parliamentary government may under favourable circumstances go a great way towards securing such blessings as the prevalence of personal liberty and the free expression of opinion . The recognition of this moral triumph is seen in the constitutional practice , almost , one may now say , the constitutional rule , that a member once placed in the Speaker 's chair shall continue to be re-elected at the commencement of each successive Parliament irrespective of the political character of each successive House of Commons . 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 .