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The Sovereign can only act by advisers, and through the instrumentality of those who are neither infallible nor impeccable— answerable, indeed, for all that the irresponsible Sovereign may do, but liable to err through undue influence, and to be swayed by improper motives.

— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Brownlow v. Egerton (1854)

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