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The caprice of Parliament is better checked when the faculty of dissolution is entrusted to its appointee, than when it is set apart in an outlying and an alien authority.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot argues that the power of dissolution should be held by those appointed by Parliament to better check its caprice.
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