Then one hears that that was not an appointee, but a younghereditarypeer.
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He would not, as a consequence of his father's death, be able to step into his shoes as an electedhereditarypeer.
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Ahereditarypeerwould not get in on the basis of a degree of legitimacy.
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We have recently seen a small number of hereditary peers selecting anotherhereditarypeerto represent them.
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Ahereditarypeercan dispense with his title or put it into cold storage.
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My second example is very different, although it involves anotherhereditarypeer.
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The old idea is that to be ahereditarypeerone has to have broad acres to sustain the position.
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The essential qualification for candidates is to be have been born ahereditarypeer.
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It has, after all, a bus conductor as ahereditarypeer.
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The only person who cannot is the son of ahereditarypeer.
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It would continue to have a majority in the other place even if we abolished the voting right of everyhereditarypeertomorrow.
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I entirely accept that anyhereditarypeercan stand and vote in local government elections.
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Of course, everyhereditarypeeris descended from a peer who was appointed, so there is not much difference.
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After all, although ahereditarypeerhe is not an upper class twit.
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It is a fact of political and social life that one very rarely meets an unpleasanthereditarypeer.
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