Why should we expect that this revolutionary process will not
be continued, and that after the House of Commons has been given the power to pass any measure it likes within two years, it should not make use of ill powers to change the procedure, first into a delay of a year, then into a delay of six months, and finally to endow itself with power to fix for each specific Bill a time-limit within which the House of Lords must either pass the measure or have it passed over its head without any further discussion ? If the House of Commons were resolved never to encroach upon the two years' delay, what is there to prevent it providing that the period of delay shall not be diminished without an appeal to the people by means of a. Referendum? The test of whether the House of Commons means to play fair in this respect is to be found in the fact that no proposal for putting the Constitution outside the reach of hasty legislation is to be found in the Resolutions.
