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If the revolution is powerful enough and eager enough to make an immense number of life peers, probably it will sweep away the hereditary principle in the Upper Chamber entirely.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot warns that a powerful revolution could completely eliminate the hereditary principle in the House of Lords.
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