Two other provisions which the British and the Nationalists agreed with initially were dropped because of the control philosophy. One was an upper house for the new parliament which would have been weighted to provide a redress for Catholic concerns. Carson vetoed this, flatly saying he was as prepared to take to the streets against the proposal as he had been against Home Rule itself. The other proposal was that the electoral system be by proportional representation as it was in the south. However, the very reason that it was introduced by Collins and Griffith to the south, because it
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