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25 Questions

1. What Other Proposal Was Also Put Forward - But Was Not Initially Successful?

2. What Are The 2 Main Reasons Why The Lords Is Often A More Effective Check On The Executive Than The Commons

3. What Are Life Peers Appointed Under?

4. What Fraction Of Mps Come From Profession Or Business Backgrounds And What Percentage Come From The Manual Working Class?

5. What Is The Major Implication Of Coalition Government With Regards To Backbenchers?

6. Why Did The Stage 2 Reforms Of The Lords Prove So Hard To Enact? (3 Reasons)

7. How Many Life Peers Are There Currently In The Hol?

8. What Are The 2 Key Powers Of The HOC?

9. What Are The 3 Parts That Make Up Parliament?

10. When Was Parliaments 'golden Age' And Why Is It Referred To As This?

11. What 4 Things Make Up The Composition Of The HOC?

12. What Were The 6 Notable Rebellions Of The Coalition Government?

13. What 2 Things Have Fuelled Debate Over Whether Or Not Parliament Needs To Be Reformed?

14. When Was The Backbench Business Committee Created And What Does It Do?

15. What Are The 5 Functions Of Parliament?

16. When Was The House Of Commons Reform Committee Founded?

17. What Are The 4 Short Term Factors That Effect Party Unity?

18. What Did The Wakeham Commission Propose In 2000 And What Was Parliaments Response?

19. What Happened With Lords Reform Under The Coalition? (Committees - Draft Bills - Features And Fate)

20. How Many Hereditary Peers Are Allowed To Sit In The Hol?

21. What Has The Primary Function Of Parliament Shifted Too Since The Introduction Of A Formal Party System?

22. What Was The Average Age Of Mps In 2015?

23. How Was Thatcher's Government Disunited?

24. What Are The 3 Way In Which Parliamentary Power Has Been Interpreted?

25. How Many Occasions Were There Under Blair Where 40 Or More Labour Mps Voted Against The Government?