There ought to be in every Constitution an available authority somewhere. The sovereign power must be come-at-able . And the English have made it so. The House of Lords, at the passing of the Reform Act of 1832 , was as unwilling to concur with the House of Commons as the Upper Chamber at Victoria to concur with the Lower Chamber. But it did concur. The Crown has the authority to create new peers; and the king of the day had promised the Ministry of the day to create them. The House of Lords did not like the precedent, and they passed the bill. The power was not used, but its existence was as useful as its energy. Just as the knowledge that his men can strike makes a master yield in order that they may not strike, so the knowledge that their House could be swamped at the will of the king⁠—at the will of the people⁠—made the Lords yield to the people.