172, 190.
[115] A Gladstonian who thinks the case of the Channel Islands in point, would do well to get up the facts of their history.

They were no more 'given' a constitution by England than, as most Frenchmen believe, they were conquered from France.

See Mr.Haldane, April 7, 1893, _Times Parliamentary Debates_, p.

333.
[116] They have now (1911) led to political separation, happily without the need for civil war.
[117] See further on this point, Home Rule as Federalism, _England's Case against Home Rule_ (3rd ed.), pp.

160-197, and for Home Rule as Colonial Independence, _ib_.pp.