We will find others to use them; your virtue shall go out of you if it is not used as we like, and stopped when we please." An assembly under such a threat cannot arrest, and could not be intended to arrest, a determined and insisting executive.
Bagehot illustrates the coercive power of the executive over the House of Lords, emphasizing its inability to resist a determined government.
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