As a legal question, too, it is a matter of grave doubt whether there ought to be two supreme courts in this country--the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and (what is in fact though not in name) the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords.
Bagehot raises concerns about the existence of two supreme courts in England and the confusion it creates.
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Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner.
These anomalies, in a hundred instances, mark the old boundaries of a constitutional struggle.
The casual line was traced according to the strength of deceased combatants; succeeding generations fought elsewhere; and the hesitating line of a half-drawn battle was left to stand for a perpetual limit.
The lessons are good where its primitive assumptions hold, but may be false where those assumptions fail.
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