Coercion Bills might be occasionally necessary; no doubt of it; Lord Grey had once a Coercion Bill, and Lord John Russell had voted for it; but then remedial measures ought to be introduced with coercive ones: the evil should be repressed, but also cured.
From a political biography, Disraeli discusses the necessity of Coercion Bills in Ireland and the importance of combining them with remedial legislation.
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