In a word, the Queen could by prerogative upset all the action of civil government within the Government, could disgrace the nation by a bad war or peace, and could, by disbanding our forces, whether land or sea, leave us defenceless against foreign nations.
Bagehot warns of the potential dangers of unchecked royal prerogative on civil governance.
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If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.
But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.
Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.
He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.
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