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Professor of Jurisprudence , because it is his vocation to deal with the oddities or the outlying portions of legal science , or to my friend the Chichele Professor of International Law , because he being a teacher of law which is not law , and being accustomed to expound those rules of public ethics which are miscalled international law , will find himself at home in expounding political ethics which , on the hypothesis under consideration , are miscalled constitutional law . The language commonly used , however , throws doubt and darkness over this and every other question connected with the subject . My aim in this chapter is , in the first place , to explain the nature of Parliamentary sovereignty and to show that its existence is a legal fact , fully recognised by the law of England ; in the next place , to prove that none of the alleged legal limitations on the sovereignty of Parliament have any existence ; and , lastly , to state and meet certain speculative difficulties which hinder the ready admission of the doctrine that Parliament is , under the British constitution , an absolutely sovereign legislature . But such men in many cases doubted whether the maintenance of the Colonial Empire was of real benefit to England , and thought that on the whole , with respect at any rate to any self-governing colony , the course of prudence was to leave things alone until it should have become manifest to every one that the hour for friendly separation had struck . Only , as such covenants are rarely , if ever , made , except in leases , there is always privity to the original parties .