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  House of Lords Bill - Exclusion of hereditary peers from voting - rejected
  
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  The majority No voters rejected an amendment[1] to the [http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199899/cmbills/034/1999034.htm House of Lords Bill]. The amendment sought to allow hereditary peers to remain in the House of Lords but they would not be allowed to vote in the Lords. However, it was defeated.
  
  The main intention of the House of Lords Bill was to abolish the hereditary peers who sit within the Lords. 
  
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  * [1] [http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1999/feb/15/exclusion-of-hereditary-peers#column_615 Sir Patrick Cormack MP], 15 February 1999, House of Commons
  
  
  
  
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