A constitutional renewal bill, drawn up by the Lord Chancellor, Jack Straw, this week, will provide for the gradual abolition of the remaining 92 hereditary peers in the House of Lords, who will no longer be replaced when they die. It would also give the House authorities power to expel peers - Lord Archer, for example. And it will give life peers the right to renounce their peerages, resign from the Lords and seek election to the Commons. Tory critics, who claim the bill has been designed solely as a way of allowing Lord Mandelson to return as a Labour MP, have dubbed it "Mandy's Bill".
The Week - 25 July 2009
THE VOICE OF REASON Solon, (born c. 630 BCE—died c. 560 BCE), Athenian statesman, known as one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece (the others were Chilon of Sparta, Thales of Miletus, Bias of Priene, Cleobulus of Lindos, Pittacus of Mytilene, and Periander of Corinth). Solon ended exclusive aristocratic control of the government, substituted a system of control by the wealthy, and introduced a new and more humane law code. He was also a noted poet.
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