Excerpt from The House of Lords Question The House Of Lords is wrong by name and wrong by nature. Even if the Second Chamber were elected by the multitude, the title Of Lords for one House and Commons for the other would be a temptation to many to be chosen for the former because Of its sounding title. If we take away from the House Of Lords its legislative functions, its judicial and deliberative functions remain. In 1873 the judicial functions were nearly annihilated. And why Should we associate the Lords any longer with the Supreme House Of Justice? That connection is in itself a great mischief. As to deliberative functions, though the Lords' House be abolished to-morrow, the debaters and Wise men, if elected, can appear in the House Of Commons, and there they can still have their vote. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.