[195-1] Woodrow Wilson, _The State_, 1898, Boston, rev. ed., 1911, p. 473, points out that of the twelve greatest subjects of legislation occupying the attention of the British Parliament during the last century--Catholic emancipation, parliamentary reform, the abolition of slavery, the amendment of the poor laws, the reform of municipal corporations, the repeal of the corn laws, the admission of the Jews to Parliament, the disestablishment of the Irish Church, the alteration of the Irish land laws, the establishment of national education, the introduction of the ballot, and the reform of the criminal law--only two (corn laws and slavery) would in America have been subjects for central (federal) government regulation. Prior to the American Civil War only one of these two, the former, would have been a subject for central (federal) government regulation. [196-1] For a detailed account of the difficulties of the British Isles Parliament in this connection, cf. _An Analysis of the System of Government throughout the British Empire_, London, 1912, Introduction, pp. xii-li. [196-2] Cf. "Pacificus," _Federalism and Home Rule_, London, 1910; also Arthur Ponsonby, "The Future Government of the United Kingdom," in _Contemporary Review_, London, November 1913. [197-1] "Pacificus," _Federalism and Home Rule_, London, 1910, pp. xlviii-xlix. [197-2] _The Times_, London, October 10, 1913. [198-1] _The Times_, London, March 3, 1913. Account of meeting of delegates of All for Ireland League, Cork, March 1, 1913. [198-2] _Ibid._ [199-1] John Bigelow, _The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin_, New York, 1887, vol. ii. pp. 376-387. [200-1] As federation is used in these pages for combinations of self-governing groups, no allusion is here made to any plans for uniting dependencies for administrative purposes such as that contained in C. S. Salmon's _The Caribbean Confederation_, London, 1888, or in the established grouping of dependent areas now styled "Federated Malay States "--concerning which latter, see Frank Swettenham, _British Malaya_, London, 1907. Such bear no comparison with self-governing federations. [200-2] W.H. Taft, _Popular Government_, New Haven, Connecticut, 1913, p. 145. [201-1] G. R. Parkin, _Imperial Federation_, London, 1892, p. 33. [201-2] As an example, cf. _Alexander Hamilton: An Essay on American Union_, by F. S. Oliver, London, 1906. [201-3] Lord Milner, April 28, 1910, at Compatriots' Club, London, in Lord Milner, _The Nation and the Empire_, London, 1913, p.454. [202-1] _The Times_, London, October 10, 1913. Cf. _ante_, p. 197.