The first and most pressing necessity of the moment is that every elector throughout the United Kingdom should, realise the immense import of the innovation.
It is a revolution far more searching than would be the abolition of the House of Lords or the transformation of our constitutional monarchy into a presidential republic.
The next point to which the attention of every man throughout the land should be directed is, that the new constitution offered to us for acceptance is unknown to any other civilised country.

Parts of it are borrowed from the United States; some of its provisions are imported from the British colonies, whilst others are apparently the inventions of the unknown and irresponsible Abbe Sieyes, who is the ingenious constitution-maker of the Cabinet.

But the new polity as a whole resembles in its essence neither the American Commonwealth nor the Canadian Dominion, nor the Government either of New Zealand or of any other self-governing colony.

It is an attempt--its admirers may think an original and ingenious attempt--to combine the sovereignty of an Imperial Parliament with the elaborate limitation and distribution of powers which distinguish federal government.

The whole thing is an experiment and an experiment without precedent.