To quote a work of
authority[33]--
"An independent Irish Executive will possess immense power. It will
be able by mere administrative action or inaction, without passing
a single law which infringes any restriction to be imposed by the
Irish Government Act, 1893, to effect a revolution. Let us consider
for a moment a few of the things which the Irish Cabinet might do
if it chose. It might confine all political, administrative, or
judicial appointments to Nationalists, and thus exclude Loyalists
from all positions of public trust. It might place the bench, the
magistracy, the police, wholly in the hands of Catholics; it might,
by encouragement of athletic clubs where the Catholic population
were trained to the use of arms, combined with the rigorous
suppression of every Protestant association suspected, rightly or
not, of preparing resistance to the Parliament at Dublin, bring
about the arming of Catholic, and the disarming of Protestant,
Ireland, and, at the same time, raise a force as formidable to
England as an openly enrolled Irish army.
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