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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] [QUOTE]So, does each district have a Lord and a Common? Or do some have one and some have others? I thought the Lords weren't even elected?[/QUOTE]No, the Lords have nothing whatosever to do with the proces that fills the Commons. In there, originally, you have the hereditary Peers (peers created at some point in the past, but who have the right of dynastic succession); Life Peers (peers created in their own lifetime, but whose peerage dies with them - these are the most common types of new peer created, the most recently-created hereditary peer I can recall was Harold MacMillan, PM in the 1960s); and the Law Lords (Hutton of the recent whitewash being one of them). Lords are generally Lord of somewhere, I think of their own choosing - e.g., Lord Jeffrey Archer of Weston-super-Mare! I don't know if there were any rules restricting the number of members of the House of Lords, either. [QUOTE]Define "Government". I mean, the Parliament is part of the government, isn't it?[/QUOTE]Again, no. I supose what we call the Government, you'd call the Administration. The Government are the poeple who actually do stuff, having been asked by the Queen to form a Government. It is "Her Majesty's Government," according to the traditions. The rest of Parliament is effectively there to act as a check on the Government; think of it as though your President was in fact the House Majority Leader, and the President was more of a symbolic Head of State the way the Queen is. I think! [QUOTE]So, is this sort of an "at-large" representation? People wouldn't vote for a representative for their specific area, but they would just cast a vote for a party? If 50% of the country voted for Party X, then 315 Xs would be assigned seats? If 30% voted for Party Y, then 189 Ys would be assigned seats?[/QUOTE]There are so many different models of PR theory that could be applied to the Commons, I can't keep track. I've no idea what happens in the case of other countries which use PR, either. But the scenario you're describing is what they propose to do in the Lords at any rate. These MSCs wouldn't be tied to a particular area (although I guess the parties would find it encumbent on themselves to try to get people from all areas to occupy seats). [/QB][/QUOTE]
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