House of Lords
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Upper chamber of the UK Parliament.
Its members are unelected and comprise the temporal peers: all hereditary peers of England created to 1707, all hereditary peers of Great Britain created 17071800, and all hereditary peers of the UK from 1801 onward; all hereditary Scottish peers (under the Peerage Act 1963); all peeresses in their own right (under the same act); all life peers (both the law lords and those created under the Life Peerages Act 1958); and the spiritual peers: the two archbishops and 24 of the bishops (London, Durham, and Winchester by right, and the rest by seniority). Since the Parliament Act 1911 the powers of the Lords have been restricted in that they may delay a bill passed by the Commons but not reject it. The Lords are presided over by the Lord Chancellor.
Upper house of the UK Parliament.The upper house of the British parliament.
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