http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/house-of-lords Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sat, 09 May 2026 01:31:03 -0400 Sat, 09 May 2026 01:31:03 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/594/reassessing-the-house-of-lords-why-the-lords-should-remain-unelected By Oliver Rieche - Since Lord Rosebery’s well-known speech there has been much debate about changes in the composition of the House of Lords. Major reforms included the Life Peerages Act 1958 and later the House of Lords Act 1999, which reduced the hereditary members to 92.[2] Nevertheless, constitutional experts such as Rodney Brazier argue that the House of Lords continues to be “unelected, unrepresentative and unaccountable.”[3] The Coalition Government is therefore working on another reform bill to provide for a wholly or largely elected second chamber. This essay will argue that such a drastic... Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:05 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/594/reassessing-the-house-of-lords-why-the-lords-should-remain-unelected http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1152/is-the-house-of-lords-dead By James Ware - Yet the ‘Red’ corridor’s surrounding our second chamber, the House of Lords were not on the tour. Given ‘New’ Labour’s landslide number of 419 MPs (out of 659 =2/3) on 43% of votes cast nationwide, all of which committed in their manifesto to reforming the second chamber by removing the voting rights of hereditary peers as a first step. The lack of knowledge on what could be the most far reaching reform of our domestic legislative process is disturbing, if not downright deceptive against the people. In this article 1 seek to explain what the House... Fri, 01 Jan 1999 12:00 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1152/is-the-house-of-lords-dead