It would probably sweep all titles before it--at least all legal titles--and somehow or other it would break up the curious system by which the estates of great families all go to the eldest son.
Bagehot suggests that the abolition of the House of Peers would lead to a broader dismantling of hereditary titles.
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The work would be done so well that we should not want any one to look over or revise it.
They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.
Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.
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