Principle shows that the power of dismissing a Government with which Parliament is satisfied, and of dissolving that Parliament upon an appeal to the people, is not a power which a common hereditary monarch will in the long run be able beneficially to exercise.
Bagehot discusses the theoretical power of a monarch to dissolve Parliament and its practical implications.
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