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The paper "The house of lords' Functions" reminds the UKParliament is composed of two houses, the House of Commons and the house of lords.... The house of lords that we know today traces its origins back to the 11th century.... The representatives of shires and boroughs made up the House of Commons while the religious leaders, magnates, and feudal landowners made up the house of lords.... The membership of the house of lords is further divided into the Lords Spiritual and Lords Temporal....
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This paper "The Parliament Acts and Reforms to the house of lords" analyses how the two Acts have contributed to the reduction of the Powers of the house of lords.... The two Acts are renowned for the eminent role they played in the ultimate reduction of the powers of the house of lords in various ways.... With reference to the Act of Parliament 1911, the UK parliament deprived the house of lords of its absolute power of veto on legislation....
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The house of lords is an organ of the British parliament.... One, the lower house, was composed of shire and borough representatives which was called the House of Commons: the other, made up of religious leaders (Lords Spiritual) and magnates (Lord Temporal), became known as the upper house, called the house of lords.
... THE house of lords IN PUBLIC LAW Yusuf Belgore The house of lords The house of lords is an organ of the British parliament....
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It is hoped that the foregoing proposal represents the best compromise and a sensible system in the house of lords reform.... The paper outlines some of the proposals with a set of principles underlying the process: the primacy of the house of Commons (the 'Commons'), complementarity, legitimacy, no dominant party, a non-party-political element, diverse representation, and continuity.... As the Royal Commission chaired by Lord Wakeham emphasized, "The house of Commons, as the principal political forum, should have the final say in respect of all major public policy issues" and "it would be wrong to restore the fully bicameral nature of the pre-1911 Parliament....
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Term Paper
As a result the house of lords, which started out almost on par with the House of Commons has seen its powers and privileges gradually being eroded with the last act being the removal of most of the hereditary peers in 1999.
... y this initiative there would be only a mere ninety-two hereditary Peers in the house of lords and that too by election from within the large number of old Hereditary Lords.... The house of lords would then be dominated by appointed Peers and the hereditary Peers a mere rump of their size in days gone by....
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The paper tells that the house of lords is a legacy of the Royalist system of government that has no place in a modern democracy.... Most British people, on this basis, oppose the house of lords as a political institution because of the power is given to royalty and hereditary legacy within the body itself.... As an Angus Reid poll in 2010 showed: 'In the online survey of a representative sample of 2,004 adults, three-in-ten respondents (30%) believe the UK does not need a house of lords and want all legislation to be reviewed and authorized by the House of Commons....
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Assignment
The author of "The Discussions on House of Lords Reforms" paper argued that the House of Lord is 'outdated, outmoded, and in need of reform'.... The cause of this initiation of reforms was the then government's incapacity to enact major proposals for lack of majority in the house of lords.... The three major issues of the Parliament Act of 1949 were that the house of lords should be complementary to House of Commons, having no permanent majority for a political party, heredity, not a basic qualification to sit in the reformed second chamber and women being given the rights to become Lords of Parliament....
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This essay analyzes that The Parliament Act of 1911 is cornerstone legislation in this context as the provisions within it had the potential to significantly alter the status quo with regard to the house of lords.... This essay will show how far reforms to the house of lords have materialized and what areas have remained stagnant in the century since the Act.... The Parliament Act of 1911 is cornerstone legislation in this context as the provisions within it had the potential to significantly alter the status quo with regard to the house of lords....
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