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The victory of the Swiss federalists in the Sonderbund war gave new life to Switzerland : this was the one indubitable success directly due to the movements of 1847-48 . But the possession of theoretically equal political rights does certainly give in England , or rather to be strictly accurate in the United Kingdom , to every British subject an equality which some British subjects do not possess in some of the Dominions . We know further that party government , which to many among the wisest of modern constitutionalists appears to be the essence of England 's far-famed constitution , inevitably gives rise to partisanship , and at last produces a machine which may well lead to political corruption and may , when this evil is escaped , lead to the strange but acknowledged result that a not unfairly elected legislature may misrepresent the permanent will of the electors . An elected legislature may well misrepresent the will of the nation . This appeal has made its appearance at every crisis in the history of England , and indeed no one has stated so forcibly as my friend Mr. Freeman himself the peculiarity of all English efforts to extend the liberties of the country , namely , that these attempts at innovation have always assumed the form of an appeal to preexisting rights . These facts may rekindle among the youth of England as of France the sense that to be young is very heaven ; these facts may console old men whom political disillusion and disappointment which they deem undeserved may have tempted towards despair , and enable them to rejoice with calmness and gravity that they have lived long enough to see the day when the solemn call to the performance of a grave national duty has united every man and every class of our common country in the determination to defy the strength , the delusions , and the arrogance of a militarised nation , and at all costs to secure for the civilised world the triumph of freedom , of humanity , and of justice .