One thing, at any rate, is certain.

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,[59] 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.
But the mere inaction of the Executive might in many spheres produce greater results than active unfairness.