| 单词 | peers of the united kingdom |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspeers of the United Kingdom There are three classes of hereditary peers: peers of the United Kingdom (also called peers of the realm, up to 1707 called peers of England, and from 1707–1801 called peers of Great Britain), all of whom, unless specifically disqualified, were (until 1999) entitled to a seat in the House of Lords, exempt from jury service, and debarred from election (and from voting in elections) to the House of Commons; peers of Scotland, all of whom were (until 1999) entitled to a seat in the House of Lords after the Peerage Act of 1963 (previously sixteen were elected to each Parliament as representative members under the Act of Union 1707); and peers of Ireland, who no longer have the right to sit in the House of Lords, but who may be elected to the House of Commons (previously twenty-eight representatives were elected as life members under the Act of Union 1800). The House of Lords Act 1999 provided for hereditary peers to elect ninety-two of their number to take seats in the House of Lords alongside the life peers, pending further reforms.extracted from peern.adj.< as lemmas |
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