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Still it may be allowable to an author writing in 1914 , though more than half blinded , as must be every critic of the age in which he lives , by the ignorance and the partialities of his own day , to remember that the present has its teaching no less than the past or the future . 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 . 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 . But that was not the meaning of the Roman law , and , as has been shown , it is not the doctrine of ours . Whether English electors are now strongly disposed to confide to the decision of judges questions which excite strong political feeling is doubtful . Now , that the existence of two leading parties , and of two such parties only , in England has favoured the development of English constitutionalism is past denial .