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"The senate is too powerful and the House of Lords is too weak" - Consider this view of the upper chambers of the U.S. congress and the U.K Parliament.
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"The senate is too powerful and the House of Lords is too weak". Consider this view of the upper chambers of the U.S. congress and the U.K Parliament. When the U.K Parliament was first instated it was the House of Lords that predominantly had all the large majority of power and was a lot more influential that the House of Commons, this role has in recent years has switched and it is now the House of Commons that has the majority of the power, this took place because of the Act of Parliament of 1911, which to a large degree reverted the two roles, It should also be remembered that Parliament has been around as long as the Monarchy has as well, but as before this was when the House of Lords and the Majority of the Lords held the majority of the power in the Country. Congress was...
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