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From each class he may learn much , but for reasons which I am about to lay before you for consideration , he is liable to be led by each class of authors somewhat astray in his attempt to ascertain the field of his labours and the mode of working it ; he will find , unless he can obtain some clue to guide his steps , that the whole province of so-called " constitutional law " is a sort of maze in which the wanderer is perplexed by unreality , by antiquarianism , and by conventionalism . It must be noted that under these two rules the Imperial Parliament does retain , and sometimes exerts the right to legislate in regard to matters which may greatly concern the prosperity of a Dominion , and also does in some respects seriously curtail both the legislative power of a Dominion Parliament and the executive power of a Dominion Cabinet . Croke gives the reason thus : " For a covenant which runs and rests with the land lies for or against the assignee at the common law , quia transit terra cum onere , although the assignees be not named in the covenant . This is a matter of good omen for the happy development of popular government and for the progress , slow though it be , of mankind along the path of true fortitude and of real righteousness . We are now ready for a case / 5 / decided under Edward III ., which has been discussed from the time of Fitzherbert and Coke down to Lord St. Leonards and Mr. Rawle , which is still law , and is said to remain still unexplained . 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 . O'Connell for a very short time exhibited a tendency to substitute federalism for repeal . Nor again is it at all inconceivable that at some other period the cause of woman suffrage 85 Burke , Correspondence , i. pp . 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 . Any one will see that this is so who compares for a moment the position of writers , such as Kent or Story , who commented on the Constitution of America , with the situation of any person who undertakes to give instruction in the constitutional law of England .