Compare British house of lord with American senate
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Both are the upper legislative chambers of their states but that’s the extent of the similarity. The House of Lords is a vestigial, unelected body with little actual political power. In practice the House of Commons dominates British politics. By contrast, the US House of Representatives and Senate are both elected bodies and both can introduce legislation (excepting tax bills). Beyond that, however, the Senate holds additional power. The Senate has some exclusive duties like reviewing Cabinet and judicial appointments. Its members are elected to longer terms, serve larger constituencies and tend to be more moderate and deliberate, and thus act as a check on the more reactionary House
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What is the difference between the U.S. Senate and the U.K House of Lords?
The US Senate : 2 Senators directly elected from each state for six-year terms, with roughly one third of Senators up for election every two years. That means that at every Senate election, only two-thirds of the states participate. Most legislation (but not financial legislation) may originate in the Senate, and all legislation must be approved by it. Judicial and Cabinet appointments must be approved by the Senate (by simple majority), and treaties must be ratified by the Senate (by a two-thirds) majority. Before 1913, Senators were chosen by the legislatures of their respective states, but the Seventeenth Amendment changed all that (a mistake, in my opinion, as it ended the input of the state governments into the federal government, upsetting the delicate balance of powers that the Founding Fathers envisaged).
The House of Lords : An indefinite number of “Lords” (currently 792). Nobles with hereditary titles (several hundred) elect 92 of their number to represent them in the House of Lords (all nobles except Irish nobles used to sit in the House of Lords as of right, but that right was abolished in 1999). 26 Bishops of the Church of England (Anglican) sit there in order of their seniority, including the Archbishops of Canterbury and York who hold their seats ex officio. The remainder are Life Peers appointed formally by the Queen, but in practice by the government of the day, usually as an honour recognizing their accomplishments in public life or in professional fields. Historically, the House of Lords was more powerful than the House of Commons (the British counterpart of the US House of Representatives), but in the 19th century, the Commons became dominant with the establishment of the convention that the Prime Minister and the Cabinet were responsible to it, rather than to the House of Lords. The Parliament Act of 1911 reduced the House of Lords to a subordinate role : it still had the power to delay legislation and make the Commons reconsider it, but could no longer ultimately block it. It mostly concentrates on tidying up messy bills and making sure that they do not contravene other legislation, international treaties, etc. — if they do, they advise (but cannot ultimately force) the House of Commons to make changes. There have been proposals to replace the House of Lords with an elected body, but all such proposals (the most recent in 2011–2012) have foundered on disagreements as to how such a body should be elected, and what powers it ought to have.