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If in 1832 the Lords had so acted, there would have been a revolution.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “If in 1832 the Lords had so acted, there would have been a revolution.”
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Bagehot suggests that if the Lords had rejected the Reform Act of 1832, it could have led to a revolution.
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