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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And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!
But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.
Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.
Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.
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