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When the leading sect (so to speak) in Parliament is doing what the nation do not like, an instant appeal ought to be registered and Parliament ought to be dissolved.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot argues for the necessity of parliamentary accountability to public sentiment through the mechanism of dissolution.
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