The Royal Commission on Electoral Systems has reported that there is much to be said in favour of the transferable vote as a method of election for a Second Chamber, and this verdict has since been endorsed in numerous articles in the press.
This demand has called forth a movement for reforming the House of Lords in order that it may fulfil more adequately its duties as a Second Chamber.
This is the conclusion arrived at by Professor Ramsay Muir[19] after a careful examination of the different methods by which a Second Chamber can be constituted.
Footnote 164: The literature of the question of second chamber reform in England is voluminous and but a few of the more important titles can be mentioned here.
But we have to be governed by colonial practice; and there is no colony in the Empire that has not a Second Chamber.
What safeguard can such a Second Chamber be to the commercial interests of this country?
Another possible mode of forming a Second Chamber would be to have it elected by the First; subject to the restriction that they should not nominate any of their own members.
The best constitution of a Second Chamber is that which embodies the greatest number of elements exempt from the class interests and prejudices of the majority, but having in themselves nothing offensive to democratic feeling.
Gentlemen, I shall not stop for a moment to offer you any proofs of the advantage of a second chamber; and for this reason.
And it has been, especially of late, maintained by great political writers in all countries, that the repeated failure of what is called the French republic is mainly to be ascribed to its not having a second chamber.
I believe even Japan rejoices to-day in the august dignity of a Second Chamber.
Why, they prove to you the necessity of a Second Chamber by pointing to the fact that all civilised nations have got one--in imitation of England.
Furthermore, it being their way to hunt up abstruse and recondite reasons for what is on the face of it ridiculous, they argue that a Second Chamber is a necessary wheel in the mechanism of popular representative government.
This is a function which no theorist would assign to a second chamberin a new Constitution, and which is matter of accident in ours.
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