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<p>Introduction.--The House of lords at the time of Oliver Cromwell.--Foreign second chambers, their origins and composition.--Origin and composition of colonial second chambers.--The powers of second chambers and the provisions for avoiding parliamentary deadlocks.--General recognition of the value of the double-chamber system.--The nature of the peril of the single-chamber system. The Parliament act and the single-chamber system.--The absence of constitutional safeguards.--The referendum.--Appendixes: I. Legislatures of the oversea states. II. Legislatures of foreign countries. III. The Parliament act, 1911
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<br>Subjects: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords; Legislative bodies -- Upper chambers</div>
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Selborne, William Waldegrave Palmer, Earl of, 1859-1942</div>
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