The King's interest is safeguarded by the division of Parliament into two Houses, each of which rejects the encroachment of the other upon the executive.

His power is limited by parliamentary privilege, freedom of the press, the right of taxation and so forth.

The theory was not true; though it represented with some accuracy the ideals of the time.
Nor must we belittle what insight De Lolme possessed.

He saw that the early concentration of power in the royal hands prevented the continental type of feudalism from developing in England; with the result that while French nobles were massacring each other, the English people could unite to wrest privileges from the superior power.

He understood that one of the mainsprings of the system was the independence of the judges.