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What is the historical function of Parliament in this country? It is to prevent the Government from governing. - George Bernard Shaw
Attribution: George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. speech, Nov. 25, 1932, at the Kingsway Hall (London). “In Praise of Guy Fawkes,” Platform and Pulpit, ed. Dan H. Laurence, Hill and Wang (1961).

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