The effect of this Resolution is quite clear. Not only
is the House of Commons henceforth to be able, without any check or limitation whatever, to impose any taxes and appropriate any moneys it desires, but there is to be no safeguard in the matter of " tacking " except such as is provided by the decision of an officer nominated by the House of Commons,—namely, the Speaker. Burke said that there was one thing which frightened him, and that was being judge in his own cause. The House of Commons knows no such terrors. It is perfectly willing to undertake to be judge in its own cause, and to decide the questions (dangerous and difficult in a high degree when political feeling grows angry) as to what is and what is not "tacking." That is work which in other Constitntions is done by impartial tribunals, like the Supreme Court of the United States, not by one of the parties concerned.
