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Think of them as a bunch of people selected at random - rather like a jury. Nobody argues that juries should be elected, or selected by the police.
by excuse-me 14y ago
Think of them as a bunch of people selected at random - rather like a jury.
Nobody argues that juries should be elected, or selected by the police.
- Tyrannosaurs 14y agoI actually rather like the idea that a small part of the Lords should be selected entirely at random.
- excuse-me 14y agoThat's what hereditary basically does
- Tyrannosaurs 14y agoLet me clarify. Randomly selected such that over time they will represent all walks off life, backgrounds, regions, ages, faiths and so on. Heredity as it is (or rather was) favours white, male (many of the titles couldn't be passed to women), upper class, privately educated, wealthy, christian individuals.