Edgar Hammond

“ The only limits which exist on its powers are not legal limits but physical and moral ones. It is physically impossible for Parliament to turn a man into a woman, though legally the proposition presents no difficulty. Parliament can enact that everybody over forty years of age shall be beheaded, but the moral conscience of the individuals who compose the Legislature makes the passing of such an Act impossible. II. The Rule of Law signifies that everyone in the country is bound to conform to the laws of the land (except, of course, the King himself) . ”

“ What we call our constitutional laws are not laws in the proper sense at all: their breach would not result in legal proceedings. They are conventions pure and simple, but in practice they are very rigidly enforced, because their breach would quickly involve the Government in a breach of the real laws of the country and so subject the members of the Executive to the jurisdiction of the Courts. Consider what would happen were Parliament not summoned regularly: the greater part of the country's taxes could not be collected ”

“ A. Professor Dicey has said that the Constitution of a country "denotes those of its rules or laws which determine the form of its government and the respective rights and duties of the government towards the citizens, and the citizens towards the government." ”