Word: meritã
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...problem arose this month, when the Blair government released a White Paper that proposed reconstituting the House of Lords so that it would have 600 members: 120 elected by the people of Britain, 120 selected by a special cross-party Appointments Commission for “merit?? and not for political ties, and the remainder appointed by the political parties in proportion to their representation in the House of Commons, the preeminent body of Parliament...