For my argument it matters not two straws by what name this policy be designated.

The scheme sketched out is not a policy which I recommend.

My contention is not that it will be expedient--this is a matter depending upon circumstances which no man can foresee--but that it will be strictly and absolutely legal.
The supremacy of the Imperial Parliament, combined with the presence of the Irish members at Westminster, will thus by a curious fatality turn out a source at once of permanent disquietude to Ireland and of immediate, if not of permanent, weakness to England.
Our New Constitution is not made to last Home Rule does not close a controversy; it opens a revolution.
No one in truth expects that the new constitution will stand.

Its very builders hesitate when they speak of its permanence,[106] and are grateful for the generous credulity of a friend who believes in its finality.

Nor is it hard to conjecture (and in such a matter nothing but conjecture is possible) what are the forces or tendencies which threaten its destruction.
If Ireland is discontented Irishmen will demand either the extension of federalism or separation.