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It would give us a larger command of able leisure; it would improve the Lords as a political pulpit, for it would enlarge the list of its select preachers.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “It would give us a larger command of able leisure; it would improve the Lords as a political pulpit, for it would…”
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Bagehot argues that life peers would improve the House of Lords as a platform for political discourse and influence.
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