The executive, the appointee of the popular chamber and the nation, can make new peers, and so create a majority in the peers; it can say to the Lords, "Use the powers of your House as we like, or you shall not use them at all.
Bagehot explains that the executive can manipulate the House of Lords by creating new peers to ensure compliance.
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