But this advantage is after all purchased at the price of placing the country under the rule of something very like two Executives.

If the policy of the Irish Cabinet, _e.g._ as to suppressing a riot at Dublin or Belfast, should differ from the policy of the English Cabinet, the ordinary police may be called into action whilst the army or the royal constabulary stand by inactive, or the army may disperse a meeting which the Irish Ministry hold to be a lawful assembly.
II.

_The Irish Parliament._ The authority of the Irish Parliament, whilst acting within the limits of the constitution, is extremely wide.[64] The Parliament appoints the Irish Government of the day; it will determine whether Mr.M'Carthy or Mr.Redmond, Mr.Healy or Mr.Davitt, directs the Irish Administration.

In this matter the British Government will have no voice.

The English Ministry are under the new constitution expected in many ways to co-operate with the Irish Ministry, yet it is quite conceivable that the Ministers of the Crown at Dublin may be men whose whole ideas of expediency, of policy, of political morality, may be opposed to the ideas of the Ministers of the Crown at Westminster.
The Irish Parliament, again, even if every Restriction on its powers inserted in the Home Rule Bill should pass into law, will be found to have ample scope for legislative action.[65] It can repeal[66] any Act affecting Ireland which was enacted before the passing of the Home Rule Bill.