Excerpt from Representative Government in England: Its Faults and Failures

The value of a remedy depends very much upon the facilities for obtaining it, and the promptitude with which it can be applied. A remedy which is obtainable only by great effort, or at great expense, or after long delay, is a comparatively useless one; and if this be true of a remedy in the ordinary sense, much more is it true in the legal or constitutional sense. A legal remedy is not only negatively useless, but, to all who cannot avail themselves of it, positively injurious. A remedy in the constitutional sense stands in the same relation to the nation as a legal remedy to the individual; and if it be wrong to deprive an individual of his legal rights it is equally wrong to deprive a nation of its legislative rights.

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