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Report on House of Lords Reform in Great Britain1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

W. A. Rudlin
Affiliation:
London School of Economics, and Political Science

Extract

The recommendations embodied in this report are not sufficiently unlike the Curzon proposals to have any strong claim to novelty. All the arguments against upper houses in general and the 1922 Resolutions in particular are equally applicable to these proposals. They differ from previous Tory reports mainly in their livelier apprehension of the implications of a Labor majority in the Commons. Since the Labor party first came within sight of power, every large Tory majority has produced its demand for reform of the House of Lords. “Reform from the Right” has hitherto been urged as the safeguard against “dangerous innovations,” a term which has widened in significance as the Labor party has increased in strength. The Cave proposals were content to save the constitution of the reformed House of Lords from further attack by the Commons and to render the Parliament Act immune from alterations without the consent of the Lords.

Type
Foreign Governments and Politics
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1933

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References

1 Report of a Joint Committee of Peers and Members of the House of Commons. 1932.

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