The Reform of the House of Lords : With a Criticism of the Report of the Select Committee of 2nd December, 1908 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Reform of the House of Lords: With a Criticism of the Report of the Select Committee of 2nd December, 1908

The Reform of the Upper Chamber is the question of the hour. The Government and the Select Committee of the House of Lords have placed before the country rival schemes upon which the electors of the House of Commons may soon be called to express a deliberate opinion. No judgment on a theme of such importance can profitably be formed Without some knowledge of historical antecedents; for this problem, like all other problems of the present, is deeply rooted in the past. To supply, in the smallest possible space, the indispensable minimum of information is the object of the following articles, which appeared originally in the columns of the Glasgow Hem/d, and are here reprinted by kind permission of the proprietors, in response to the suggestion that, in a more permanent form, they might prove useful. They have accordingly been re vised and some new matter added; but brevity and lucidity have been aimed at, rather than.

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