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This novel phenomenon , which perplexes moralists and statesmen , is that large classes of otherwise respectable persons now hold the belief and act on the conviction that it is not only allowable , but even highly praiseworthy , to break the law of the land if the law-breaker is pursuing some end which to him or to her seems to be just and desirable . A fair-minded man prepared to do this will , in the first place , admit that many democratic formulas , e.g . Still it certainly would be urged by a fair-minded opponent of the referendum that there exists a presumption that the Houses of Parliament acting together will exhibit something more of legislative intelligence than would the mass of the electorate when returning their answer to a question put to them by the referendum . 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 . 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 . " 88 Now the doctrine of proportional representation thus interpreted is a dogma to which a fair-minded man may well refuse his assent . Empire , may by federalists be put down to the credit of federal government , though in matter of fact no two constitutions can , either in their details or in their spirit , bear less real resemblance than the democratic and , on the whole , unmilitary constitution of the United States and the autocratic Imperial and , above all , military government of Germany .