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The very element which was wanted to the House of Lords was, as it were, by a constitutional providence, offered to the House of Lords, and they refused it.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot argues that the House of Lords rejected a crucial opportunity for improvement, which he sees as a constitutional failure.
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