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The constitution was to them , in the quaint language of George the Third , " the most perfect of human formations " ; 3 it was to them not a mere polity to be compared with the government of any other state , but so to speak a sacred mystery of statesmanship ; it " had ( as we have all heard from our youth up ) not been made but had grown " ; it was the fruit not of abstract theory but of that instinct which ( it is supposed ) has enabled Englishmen , and especially uncivilised Englishmen , to build up sound and lasting institutions , much as bees construct a honeycomb , without undergoing the degradation of understanding the principles on which they raise a fabric more subtlely wrought than any work of conscious art . 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 . For details of the directives necessary to configure httpd see the Apache manual , which is part of the Apache distribution or can be found at http://www.apache.org/ . leaving the administration of the Post Office to the body of public servants responsible for the management of the postal system . If , for a moment , one may adopt modern expressions while divesting them of any implied blame or praise , one may say that Conservatism and Liberalism each play their part in promoting the welfare of any country where popular government exists . They forbade the existence of a common coinage ; they allowed any one canton to protect the financial interest of its citizens against competition by the inhabitants of every other canton . Introduction , as in the writing of every book which I have published , untold aid from suggestions made to me by a large number both of English and of foreign friends . Depreciation of , or contempt for , representative legislatures dearly exists under the parliamentary and republican government of France , under the federal and republican constitution of the Swiss Confederacy , or of the United States , under the essential militarism and the superficial parliamentarism of the German Empire , and even under the monarchical and historical constitutionalism of the British Empire . " This name is a good one ; it reminds us that the main use of the referendum is to prevent the passing of any important Act which does not command the sanction of the electors . The problem was brought home to me back in the 1980s when an incompetent and prejudiced district court judge in Texas , where such judges are elected , who had been voted the worst judge in the district by the lawyers there , was nominated for and elected to the Texas Supreme Court , with the support of those same lawyers , as a way to get him out of the district . Not a page of my lectures could have been written without constant reference to writers such as Blackstone , Hallam , Hearn , Gardiner , or Freeman , whose books are in the hands of every student . Queen Elizabeth at a time when the King or Queen of England was not indeed the absolute sovereign of the country , but was certainly the most important part of the sovereign power , namely Parliament.110 In this Introduction the referendum , or the people 's veto , is considered simply with reference to Bills passed by the Houses of Parliament but which have not received the royal assent . The constant amendment of a book republished in successive editions during thirty years is apt to take from it any such literary merits as it may originally have possessed . The grounds for this opinion are , firstly , that the King and the two Houses acting together can most certainly enact or repeal any law whatever without in any way contravening the Parliament Act ; and , secondly , that the House of Lords , while it cannot prevent the House of Commons from , in effect , passing under the Parliament Act any change of the constitution , provided always that the requirements of the Parliament Act are complied with , nevertheless can , as long as that Act remains in force , prohibit the passing of any Act the effectiveness of which depends upon its being passed without delay . These utilities give you an idea what you 'll need to tune in your kernel , and whether it 'll help to buy more RAM . But in 1884 the exercise of self-government on the part of any colony was regarded as subordinate to real control by the English Parliament and Crown of colonial legislation which might be opposed to English interests or to English ideals of political prudence . Thus the eminent man who advocated the desirability of every opinion obtaining a hearing in the House of Commons , used on another occasion the following words : " It is an essential and integral feature of our policy that we shall go forward with the task of making the House of Commons not only the mouthpiece but the mirror of the national mind . In England the introduction of the referendum means , it is urged , the transfer of political power from knowledge to ignorance . If the House of Commons deliberately excludes the intervention of any law Court in matters which the House may deem ( with very dubious truth ) to concern the House alone , we can scarcely wonder that artisans should have no love for judicial decisions . the temper of fanatical adoration by just hatred of those " doctors of the modern school , " who , when he wrote , were renewing the rule of barbarism in the form of the reign of terror ; we cannot exactly echo the fervent self-complacency of Hallam , natural as it was to an Englishman who saw the institutions of England standing and flourishing , at a time when the attempts of foreign reformers to combine freedom with order had ended in ruin . And when we turn to the history of those remedies for rent which sounded in contract , we find that they were so regarded . But it is desired to lay down no proposition which admits of controversy , and it is enough for the present purposes that Si home fait un loyal act , que apres devint illoyal , ceo est damnum sine injuria . 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 .