[8:3] Professor Dicey argued that the first Home Rule Bill if enacted might have restricted the legal sovereignty of Parliament. "England's Case against Home Rule," 238, et seq. This result was denied by the other side. Bryce, "Studies in Hist. and Jur.," 176, note.
[9:1] Boutmy in his Etudes de droit constitutionel (1 Ed., 9) adds treaties or quasi-treaties (the Acts of Union), and solemn agreements such as the Bill of Rights. But all these are in legal effect simply statutes.
[9:2] Bryce, American Commonwealth, Ch. xxxiv.
[10:1] The habit of collecting new or increased duties or excises as soon as the resolution to impose them passes the House of Commons is an apparent exception to this principle, for the taxes are not legally payable until laid by Act of Parliament. The object of the custom is to prevent a large loss of revenue by importations made after it is known that the duty will be levied and before it goes into effect. The act when passed contains, of course, a clause authorising and thereby making legal the collection from the date of the resolution, and if it fails to pass the tax is refunded.
[11:1] "Growth of the English Constitution," 107, 112-13, 119.
[11:2] "Law of the Constitution," Ch. xv.
[12:1] All this is true only of conventions that give effect to the will of the majority of the House of Commons, not of those that secure fair play to the minority, which are in fact not less important.
[13:1] "Law of the Constitution," 360, 384.
