I cannot look on life peerages in the way in which some of their strongest advocates regard them; I cannot think of them as a mode in which a permanent opposition or a contrast between the Houses of Lords and Commons is to be remedied.
Bagehot critiques the view of life peerages as a solution to the opposition between the Houses of Lords and Commons.
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