{"id":29297,"date":"2011-11-13T16:48:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T16:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/archbishops_question_case_for_elected_house_of_lords\/"},"modified":"2011-11-13T16:48:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T16:48:30","slug":"archbishops_question_case_for_elected_house_of_lords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29297","title":{"rendered":"Archbishops Question case for elected House of Lords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishops of Canterbury and York question the rationale for a wholly or mainly elected House of Lords in their submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Government&#8217;s Draft Bill and White Paper (the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/media\/1360132\/gs%20misc%201004%20-%20house%20of%20lords%20reform.pdf\">submission<\/a> can be read on the CofE website).<\/p>\n<p>Whilst welcoming the Draft Bill&#8217;s proposals to provide continued places for bishops of the established Church in a partly appointed House, the Archbishops ask that the appointments process also have regard to increasing the presence of leaders of other denominations and faiths.<\/p>\n<p>The Draft Bill and White Paper proposes a House of Lords of 300 members, with either 80% or 100% elected by proportional representation. If the reformed House were to retain an appointed element, there would be places for Church of England bishops, though reduced to 12 from their current 26. Bishops would not be allowed to remain in a 100% elected House under the Government&#8217;s plans.<\/p>\n<p>The Archbishops argue in their submission that the test of reform is whether it enables Parliament as a whole to serve the people better.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/churchofengland.org\/media-centre\/news\/2011\/11\/archbishops-question-case-for-elected-house-of-lords.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishops of Canterbury and York question the rationale for a wholly or mainly elected House of Lords in their submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Government&#8217;s Draft Bill and White Paper (the submission can be read on<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29297\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,50,74,67,83,389,199,133,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-archbishop-of-york-john-sentamu","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-history","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}