Upper Chamber

It’s the same for the makeup of the Senate – we have a far more diverse, representative slice of Canadian society in the Upper Chamber because of its particular makeup than we do in the Commons because as it stands, our electoral politics still self-selects toward the model of the authoritative straight white middle-aged man.

2009 July 2009

It’s the same for the makeup of the Senate – we have a far more diverse, representative slice of Canadian society in the Upper Chamber because of its particular makeup than we do in the Commons because as it stands, our electoral politics still self-selects toward the model of the authoritative straight white middle-aged man.

Unelected representative democracy - Beyond The Commons - Macleans.ca 2009

This proposal was rejected by the Lower Chamber but accepted by the Upper Chamber, and M, Staaff resigned.

Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election John H. Humphreys

It is the bourgeoisie which has destroyed the influence of the Upper Chamber, and which will dethrone the King whenever he shall become unsatisfactory to it.

What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. 1890

It is the bourgeoisie which has destroyed the influence of the Upper Chamber, and which will dethrone the King whenever he shall become unsatisfactory to it.

What is Property? 1837

Dr Starkey was not at all complimentary about the standard of the current membership of the Upper Chamber, despite the fact that Baroness (Sally) Hamwee was sitting by his side.

Jonathan Fryer 2009

In the Upper Chamber, Senator Smart Adeyemi (Kogi West) said that the Executive had failed to get the input of Senators into the budget estimates, a development he explained would not have substantially captured the aspirations of the people he and his colleagues are representing in the Senate.

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Motion on Union Question in Swedish Riksdag's Upper Chamber 87 14.

The Swedish-Norwegian Union Crisis A History with Documents Karl Nordlund

privileges and conduct committee said the two men should be banned from the Upper Chamber until next June and May respectively.

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