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It can ensure that its decrees shall be executed, for it, and it alone, appoints the executive; it can inflict the most severe of all penalties on neglect, for it can remove the executive.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot explains the powers of the English Constitution to ensure the execution of its decrees through its control over the executive.
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