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To these causes of lawlessness honesty compels the addition of one cause which loyal citizens are most anxious not to bring into prominence . Honest belief in the principle of laissez faire produced its natural and , as far as it went , beneficial result . Nothing can be more pedantic , nothing more artificial , nothing more unhistorical , than the reasoning by which Coke induced or compelled James to forego the attempt to withdraw cases from the Courts for his Majesty 's personal determination.9 But no achievement of sound argument , or stroke of enlightened statesmanship , ever established a rule more essential to the very existence of the constitution than the principle enforced by the obstinacy and the fallacies of the great Chief-Justice . And the extent to which even he was identified came to be a matter of discussion . But the principle of such transfers is clearly anomalous , and does not affect the general doctrine of the law . What is the precise moral influence which might be exerted by a wise constitutional monarch ; what are the circumstances under which a Minister is entitled to dissolve Parliament ; whether the simultaneous creation of a large number of Peers for a special purpose is constitutionally justifiable ; what is the principle on which a Cabinet may allow of open questions these and the like are the kind of inquiries raised and solved by writers whom , as being occupied with the conventional understandings of the constitution , we may term conventionalists . 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 . When one estate was said to be enslaved to another , or a right of way was said to be a quality or [ 383 ] incident of a neighboring piece of land , men 's minds were not alert to see that these phrases were only so many personifying metaphors , which explained nothing unless the figure of speech was true . / 1 / It was allowed , however , in the end , / 2 / and then the principle of succession was extended to the assign .