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Posted on 03/12/2026 1:16:41 PM PDT by Redmen4ever
Centuries of British political tradition will end within weeks after Parliament voted to remove hereditary aristocrats from the unelected House of Lords.
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Our U.S. system, for all its faults, requires what John C. Calhoun called a "complex majority." We have a bicameral legislature with each chamber elected by a different method; a president elected by yet another method; a Supreme Court, the members of which once confirmed serve for life; and, the powers of government split between state and federal levels.
We want a government that is strong enough to defend us and perhaps also to serve us in other ways. But, we have to guard against a government so strong that it rules over us. Our U.S. method involves meaningful checks and balances. With the end of hereditary Lords, the UK takes another step toward a potentially all-powerful government without any checks or balances.
The “Ship of State” should turn slowly.
But a hereditary King is OK?
“But a hereditary King is OK?”
You misquoted and posted falsely. Why?
So, no more singing about those ‘12 Lords a-leaping’?
To be replaced by Muslims, no doubt.
He didn’t “misquote” a thing.
England does have hereditary Kings, and they are “OK.”
He is just asking “Why?”
Oh, great. Just one day after I inherited the British title of Grand Marshal, Duke of the Scottish Highlands.
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Oh, well. I didn’t want to sit in the House of Lords, anyway. I heard that the place is drafty. And the Pepsi machine in the front hall is usually empty.
Bingo. Instead of Reginalds there are going to be a lot of Muhammads.
And replace those with In-breds from the Middle-East??
Secondly, when the Rump Parliament kicked out every Parliament member loyal to the King, then tried King Charles I when there was no law on the books at the time to do so, made the rules up as they went along, found him guilty and beheaded him on January 30, 1649. For ages, Britain's Kings were told they were God's representative on Earth, but when King Charles I ruled under that same belief, religious malcontents claimed he was not God's representative on Earth after all.
Five years later, after Oliver Cromwell died, and his son Richard decided he didn't want to continue as the Lord Protector of the Realm, Parliament begged Prince Charles Stuart to return from exile and become King Charles II.
Parliament has had their heads up their asses for quite a while now.
They’re entering the 19th century? Wow.
Inbred no doubt.
The US Senate was originally based on the House of Lords - a local gentry/landowner, with specific interests and connections to his State and its people, accountable, but still chosen outside of the direct democratic method.
The purpose was to balance the fashion and passions of 2-year elected reps, as well as to resist undue pressure of the President or central government
I’m not British and the USA does not have a hereditary system - but I agree with the Chesterton quote that before you tear-down an old stone wall, you had better understand why it was built in the first place
Each nation’s history and culture is different, but stability and tradition are the foundation of freedom, and through all of these, freedom and governance are expressed a bit differently in each country
While the same time, mob rule and fascism look the same everywhere.
Not just hereditary succession, all successors must be Protestants only.
I believe the heredity Lords are being replace by Lords appointed by the P.M., in the King’s name, of course. Lots of them with names that don’t sound all that English.
Every year Parliament demonstrates that without constraints democracy is mob rule!
The Founding Fathers understood this.
But Lord Devon thinks it’s risky to tinker with the U.K.'s unwritten constitution, which “has survived an awful lot of slings and arrows of misfortune over a thousand years.”
“The fact that I am doing a job that was granted by the Empress Matilda to my forebear in 1142, and is still ongoing and is still functioning, is a remarkable example of consistency and continuity,” said the earl, a 49-year-old lawyer whose given name is Charles Peregrine Courtenay.
Courtenay, who owns Powderham Castle and its 3,500 acre (1,400 hectare) estate in the southwest England county of Devon, is sanguine about becoming the last in his storied family to sit in Parliament.
“We were responsible for crowning Henry VII. We fought alongside the Black Prince at the Battle of Crécy, and we financed the Agincourt campaign in 1415. And we were first cousins of Henry VIII until he chopped our head off,” he said. “So we’ve been somewhat involved in the workings of government over a long, long time.
Out with the old. In with the new.
Hereditary seats are the antithesis of a free society. In this day, who in God’s name can justify legally inheriting a seat in government? At least we have the common decency to make them stand for a rigged election..
In the UK, labor is absolutely horrible. But nobility, and unelected power has no place in the modern world.
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