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" Whereas it is expedient that provision should be made for regulating the relations between the two Houses of Parliament: And whereas it is intended to substitute for the House of Lords as it at present exists a Second Chamber constituted on a popular... "
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 190
1917
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Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the ..., Volume 7, Part 1912

Mississippi State Bar Association - 1912 - 168 pages
...the Speaker because of unprecedented disorder. The bill provides as follows: "Whereas, It is intended to substitute for the House of Lords as it at present exists a Second Chamber constituted on a popular basis, instead of a hereditary basis, but such substitution cannot be immediately brought into operation;...
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The World's Work, Volume 22

Walter Hines Page, Arthur W. Page - 1911 - 762 pages
...Government with regard to the aristocratic body. The Government affirms its intention of substituting for the House of Lords as it at present exists, "a...constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis." There never was a moment's doubt, since the issue was joined between the hereditary chamber and the...
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The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 10

John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1911 - 446 pages
...preamble to the bill, its sponsors professed an intention at some future time to offer a measure designed "to substitute for the House of Lords as it at present...constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis." But in the opinion of the present Cabinet as expressed in the speech from the throne on February 21, 1910,...
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A Short History of England

Reginald James White - 1967 - 308 pages
...known as 'the Parliament Act' of 1911, which began with the statement that 'whereas it is intended to substitute for the House of Lords as it at present...Second Chamber constituted on a popular instead of a hereditary basis, but such substitution cannot be immediately brought into operation' and went on...
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The Nineteenth-Century Constitution 1815-1914: Documents and Commentary

H. J. Hanham - 1969 - 516 pages
...made for regulating the relations between the two Houses of Parliament: And whereas it is intended to substitute for the House of Lords as it at present...constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis, but such substitution cannot be immediately brought into operation: And whereas provision will require...
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 98

1925 - 966 pages
...does not brook delay. The preamble to the Parliament Act reads as follows : Whereas it is intended to substitute for the House of Lords as it at present...constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis, but such substitution cannot be immediately brought into operation : And whereas provision will require...
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Cases and Materials on Constitutional and Administrative Law

Geoffrey Wilson - 1976 - 842 pages
...made for regulating the relations between the two Houses of Parliament: And whereas it is intended to substitute for the House of Lords as it at present...constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis, but such substitution cannot be immediately brought into operation: And whereas provision will require...
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Source Problems in English History

Albert Beebe White, Wallace Notestein - 1915 - 558 pages
...relations between the two Houses of Parliament: And whereas it is intended to substitute for the is House of Lords as it at present exists a Second Chamber...constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis, but such substitution cannot be immediately brought into operation: And whereas provision will require...
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Political Culture and Constitutionalism: A Comparative Approach

Daniel P. Franklin, Michael J. Baun - 1995 - 264 pages
...intended it as a first step toward much more radical reform. In the words of its preamble, "It is intended to substitute for the House of Lords as it at present...constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis, but such substitution cannot be immediately brought into operation." More than eighty years later the promise...
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The Monarchy and the Constitution

Vernon Bogdanor - 1995 - 348 pages
...constitution. This was because the preamble to the Parliament Act had declared that 'it is intended to substitute for the House of Lords as it at present...constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis, but such substitution cannot be immediately brought into operation'. This preamble had no legal force;...
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