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0 create a peer is to invest a line of men with irresponsible power 1 over the Legislature for, it may be, half a dozen centuries.... Such an act is important, we might almost call it solemn.' The Parliament Act of i9ii placed definite limits upon the legislative powers of the House of Lords. It was a logical sequel to three reforms of the House of Commons which had brought that body into closer conformity with the composition and spirit of the country. The House of Lords had remained an essentially hereditary institution and, as such, was too little responsive to changes in the political climate of the nation. Did this mean that the peerage, from which most of the members of the
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