An English Cabinet, I suspect, will hardly enforce the unpopular rights of a hated plaintiff by use of arms.
Why, it will be said, assume that the Irish Government and the Irish people will not enforce the law?
The assumption, I answer, is justified not only by the history of Ireland, but by general experience.

In all federations, even the best ordered, difficulties constantly arise as to the sphere of the Federal Government and the State Governments, and as to the enforcement of judgments delivered by Federal Courts.

The authority of the federal tribunals has not always been easily enforced even in the United States.

Serious difficulties hamper the action of the Swiss federal authorities.

Even in England enthusiasm or conviction occasionally triumphs over legality.