It is perfectly possible--it has happened and will happen again--that the Cabinet, being very powerful in the Commons, may inflict minor measures on the nation which the nation did not like, but which it did not understand enough to forbid.
Bagehot notes that a powerful Cabinet can impose unpopular measures on the public due to a lack of understanding.
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He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.
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