Sentence examples for appointed chamber from inspiring English sources

But having spent so much energy excoriating the undemocratic nature of the present Lords, the government could hardly get away with an entirely appointed chamber.

Also in June the Conservatives reintroduced the Senate Reform Act, which sought to expand federal power to transform the Senate into an elected (rather than appointed) chamber and to establish term limits.

Earlier today, the House of Lords itself backed a fully appointed chamber, setting the two houses of Parliament on a collision course that appeared to have doomed any immediate progress on the long-awaited restructuring of Britain's much-maligned upper house.

It is hard to see how an appointed chamber meets any of those needs.

If they defeat the Government again, there will be further outcry from Conservative MPs who believe the House of Lords is breaking constitutional convention, with an appointed chamber overruling the democratically elected House of Commons.

Clearly, an appointed chamber with a seat for life is more appealing to such big donors than the risk of having to ask people for their vote every five years.

They would like the country to make a more convincing bid at democracy than its appointed consultative chamber, to be free of the zeal of its religious police, to accept that men and women are the same species.

Last March, the Commons voted by a majority of 113 to reform the upper house to 100% elected, but that legislation was blocked by the House of Lords itself, which voted in favour of an entirely appointed upper chamber.

Back in 2012 – shortly before the coalition plan for Lords reform went tits up – an eye-catching poll found that 69% of the public supported a reformed House of Lords, with just 5% backing the status quo, a fully appointed second chamber (and that was yonks before this list, and before Lord Sewel was filmed whingeing about being paid £200 a day to a woman he'd hired for £200 a night).

Seven options for reform, from a fully elected to a fully appointed second chamber, are put forward but MPs and peers fail to agree on any of them.

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