ISBN : 2747503143
THE HOUSE OF LORDS: TOWARDS GENUINE CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM?
Introduction lilt is intended to substitute for the House of Lords as presently constituted a second chamber constituted on a popular instead of a hereditary basis " This commitment to major reform of the House of Lords, although it sotlnds topical, was in fact written almost 90 years ago. It features in the preamble to the 1911 Parliament Act which restricted the power of the House of Lords to veto legislation passed by the House of Commons. To be fair, the sentence quoted above continues, "[...] but such a substitutiol1 cannot immediately be brought into operation." A number of attempts were made to reform the Lords in the course of the 20th century, and important changes...