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Originally Posted by Robert Owen
The are ways around this Gayle. One way possibly a different voting system for the second chamber, some form of P.R maybe. Other Countries have two elected chambers that seem by and large to work well.
I just think Gayle that in modern democracy in the 21st century the argument that you can have an unelected second chamber that makes decisions that can effect millions of lives is unsustainable
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If you check back you'll find I wasn't defending the old feudal system either. I'm just wary that elections would end up producing a duplicate commons rather than an independent lords and I asked the question - how could this work.
Using a different system could well be an option.