These are-- i. Home Rule as Federalism. ii. Home Rule as Colonial Independence. iii. Home Rule as the Restoration of Grattan's Constitution. iv. Home Rule under the Government of Ireland Bill, or, to use a convenient name, under the Gladstonian constitution. Chap. vii. CHAPTER II. MEANING OF HOME RULE. "Home Rule" is a term which, like all current and popular phrases, is, though intelligible, wanting in precision. Hence it is well, before we investigate the different forms which schemes of Home Rule may assume, to fix in our minds precisely what Home Rule does mean and what it does not mean. [Sidenote: What Home Rule means.] "Home Rule"--or, to speak more accurately, the policy of Home Rule--means, if we may use language with which we are all familiar in relation to the Colonies, the endowment of Ireland with representative institutions and responsible government. It means, therefore, the creation of an Irish Parliament which shall have legislative authority in matters of Irish concern, and of an Irish executive responsible (in general) for its acts to the Irish Parliament or the Irish people. Hence every scheme of Home Rule which merits that name is marked by three features--_first_, the creation of an Irish Parliament; _secondly_, the right of the Irish Parliament to legislate within its own sphere (however that sphere may be defined) with habitual freedom from the control of the Imperial or British Parliament; and _thirdly_, the habitual responsibility of the Irish executive for its acts to the Irish people or to their representatives.