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		TheCoelacanth on July 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What happened when the rich stopped intermarrying ... "Peer" means that they hold a position in the archaic fancy-hats club that sometimes gets referred to as "nobility", except for baronets who are too low to be peers.

Cederfjard on July 3, 2022 [–]

What jasonkester might have been thinking of is that peers are eligible to sit in the House of Lords.

Taniwha on July 3, 2022 | [–]

however while the House of Lords is an analogous to the US Senate it's NOT a co-equal house with the House of Commons

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