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Peel also was able to show that while he and his followers were prepared to resist any further changes in the constitution , they fully accepted the Reform Act of 1832 , and , while utterly rejecting a policy of reaction , were ready to give the country the benefits of enlightened administration . Q.B.D . The plaintiff replied that he was tenant of the manor , and that his great-grandfather enfeoffed a stranger , who enfeoffed the plaintiff and his wife ; and that thus the plaintiff was tenant of the manor by purchase , and privy to the ancestor ; and also that the services had been rendered for a time whereof the memory was not . The usual reaction to proposals to select judges by some sortition process is that it would not result in selecting the most qualified persons for those positions , which require a high level of legal training and ability . But in spite of or perhaps because of this facile eloquence , the authority of individual M.P.s who neither sit in the Cabinet nor lead the Opposition , has suffered diminution . Then , too , it is thought that whereas English statesmen find it difficult to regulate the relation between Great Britain and Ireland , the task will become easier if the same statesmen undertake to transform , by some hocus-pocus of political legerdemain , the whole United Kingdom into a federal government consisting of at least four different states . The present edition , therefore , of the Law of the Constitution is in substance a reprint of the seventh edition ; it is however accompanied by this new Introduction whereof the aim is to compare our constitution as it stood and worked in 1884 with the constitution as it now stands in 1914 .