Some Scattered Thoughts which, with Good Fortune, will Terminate their Long and Anguished Journey at the House of Lords
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What did the House of Lords ever do for us? I would imagine that the House of Lords has some pretty distant origins. I don’t know a huge amount about its existence before the Civil Wars so you’ll have to find out about all that on your own. After the Civil Wars, the House of Lords fit into a model of mixed government which everyone quite liked the sound of. Aristotle thought there were 6 basic forms of government, they were distinguished based on how many people ruled and how well they ruled. This gives us monarchy (good rule by one), tyranny (bad rule by one), aristocracy (good rule by a few), oligarchy (you get the pattern by now),
Some Scattered Thoughts which, with Good Fortune, will Terminate their Long and Anguished Journey at the House of Lords
Some Scattered Thoughts which, with Good…
Some Scattered Thoughts which, with Good Fortune, will Terminate their Long and Anguished Journey at the House of Lords
What did the House of Lords ever do for us? I would imagine that the House of Lords has some pretty distant origins. I don’t know a huge amount about its existence before the Civil Wars so you’ll have to find out about all that on your own. After the Civil Wars, the House of Lords fit into a model of mixed government which everyone quite liked the sound of. Aristotle thought there were 6 basic forms of government, they were distinguished based on how many people ruled and how well they ruled. This gives us monarchy (good rule by one), tyranny (bad rule by one), aristocracy (good rule by a few), oligarchy (you get the pattern by now),