My Lords, I do not think that such a subjection is compatible either with the spirit of our parliamentary constitution or with that independence and freedom which have hither to been held to lie at the basis of representative government in the United Kingdom." [page 111] "For the people having reserved to themselves the choice of their representatives, as the fence to their properties, could do it for no other end but that they might always be freely chosen, and so chosen freely act and advise, as the necessity of the commonwealth and the public good should upon examination and mature debate be judged to require. ." [page 113] "Still further, in regard to the Members of Parliament himself, he too is to be free; he is not to be the paid mandatory of any man, or organization of men, nor is he entitled to bind himself to subordinate his opinions on public questions to others, for wages, or at the peril of pecuniary loss; and any contract of this character would not be recognized by a Court of law, either for its enforcement or in respect of its breach. " [page 115] It is relevant to observe here that the rule impugned in that case was struck down by the Court of Appeal whose decision was upheld by the House of Lords on grounds of the Society 's competence to make the rule.