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Originally Posted by Mancie
but can you name any name any other democracy (in what we call "the west") that has hereditary Lords changing and sometimes refusing laws imposed by an elected government... no one is born to impose laws (by the way, you would do a good job as the sheriff of Nottingham)
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Now that you mention it, we do have something similar here. We have the Canadian Senate. Senators are appointed by the Lieutennant Govenor in Council (the PM in other words). They are not elected, and they do have the same powers as your House of Lords. They are not hereditary, and they are not lords; but they do perform the same (dis)function.