...Committee started from the proposition that henceforward the possession of a Peerage should not of itself give the right to sit and vote in the House of Lords. The hereditary principle, as an exclusive and sufficient qualification, was thus, at the outset , j...

...condition be amended ? The House of Lords has already adopted Lord Rosebery's resolutions, which lay down the principle that " possession of a peerage shall...the right to sit and vote in the House of Lords." This may mean much, little, or nothing. The effectiveness of the principle, in accomplishing the result...

...in the case of peers of the blood royal it was undesirable that possession of the peerage should of itself give the right to sit and vote in the House of Lords, and that in future the dignity of the peer and the dignity of a Lord of Parliament would be separate...

...reconstituting the House of Lords. ''That a necessary preliminary to such reform and reconstitution is the acceptance of the principle that possession...the right to sit and vote in the House of Lords." The third resolution is undoubtedly significant, albeit it is not as "revolutionary" as it seems. In...

...issued on December 3. The committee finds it undesirable that the possession of a peerage should of itself give the right to sit and vote in the House of Lords, and it recommends that qualifications should be the main test for admission to the reformed house....

...reconstruction is the acceptance of the principle that the possession of a peerage should no longer itself give the right to sit and vote in the House of Lords." It will be noticed that this resolution is non-committal on the question of how the voting members...

...reconstituting the House of Lords. (3) That a necessary preliminary to such reform and reconstitution is the acceptance of the principle that possession...in settling " a problem of such national gravity." ne London "While the Unionists in England County are denouncing the Lloyd-George budget and most of...

...condition be amended ? The House of Lords has already adopted Lord Roseben- 's resolutions, which lay down the principle that " possession of a peerage shall...the right to sit and vote in the House of Lords." This may mean much, little, or nothing. The effectiveness of the principle, in accomplishing the result...

...reconstitution is the acceptance of the principle that the possession of a peerage should no longer of itself give the right to sit and vote in the House of Lords. The third resolution was the only one upon which a division took place. It was opposed by Lord Halsbury...

...reconstitution is the acceptance of the principle that the possession of a peerage should no longer of itself give the right to sit and vote in the House of Lords.' He said:—My Lords,—It is twenty-two years almost to a day since I last brought the subject of the...