Rejected petition Dismiss calls to abolish the House of Lords

The House of Lords is made up of people from all walks of life whose varied experience provides a practical level of scrutiny to Commons proposals.
As such this petition calls for the House of Lords in its existing role to be maintained and that recent calls to abolish the chamber be dismissed

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The House of Lords has the important duty of making and shaping laws and acts as an independent challenge to the House of Commons.
Following the House of Lords vote to amend the Article 50 bill a petition has launched calling for this Parliamentary chamber to be abolished.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/188397

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Date submitted 3 March 2017
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