(2) Statutes, such as the Habeas Corpus
Act and its amendments, the Bill of
Rights, the Act of Settlement, Mr.
TFox’s Libel Act, the Prisoners’ Counsel
 Act, the Reform Act, the Supreme
Court of Judicature Act, the Naturalization
 Act, the Municipal Corporation
 Act, and the Local Government
Acts.

(3.) Authoritative judicial decisions, as those
on the rights of jurymen, on the
prerogative of the Crown, on the
privileges of the Houses of Parliament
 and of their members, and on
the rights and duties of the Police.

(4.) Parliamentary precedents as recorded
in reports of committees of both
Houses, in the writings of authoritative
 commentators on parliamentary
usage, and in the reported debates
and proceedings of both Houses.

Some of the most important of these documents
 will be found at the end of this volume as
being embodied in the Constitution as it at present
stands. However instructive and interesting the
study of constitutional history may be, it is beyond
the scope of the present enquiry, which deals
merely with constitution and powers of the Gov-