Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Impact of Brexit on the UK Economy

Business Law & Ethics

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
The parliamentary sovereignty notion is often regarded as the British constitution's basic
principle. Parliamentary sovereignty recognizes that parliament is the highest legislative and
supreme authority in the country of United Kingdom (UK). Unlike most of the other nations like
Germany, United States (US), etc., the constitution of the United Kingdom is unwritten and it
also lacks a singular text (Bogdanor, 2019). Although, this would not diminish the significance
of it in the process of constitution in the UK.
MAIN BODY
The sovereignty of parliament essentially means that the parliament of the country has
precedence over to that of any of the other organisation relating to the law-making. Importantly,
parliament cannot make any choices that will be binding on future legislatures. This effectively
eliminates the possibility of a written constitution, as removing parliamentary authority would be
required just before written constitution could be added into the British laws (Young, 2017). The
sovereignty notion dates back several of the centuries, and up until year 1689, only the king was
considered the supreme authority figure. Although the monarch remains extremely involved, this
was adjusted to give parliament the dominant political and legislative function.
The courts cannot stop a bill from being passed because of the legislative sovereignty
scenario. In contrast to this, in the country of the United States, supreme authority resides with
the Supreme Court and also it has the authority to overrule or change the legislation with which
the court do not agree with (Brusenbauch Meislová, 2019). In Law of the Constitution, published
in the year 1885. One of the well-known jurist AV Dicey outlined the concept of parliamentary
sovereignty, stating, "In theory, Parliament possesses absolute authority." It is in charge.” This,
he believed, was based on four variables: initially, the said parliament seems to have the
authority to implement any legislation on every specific topic; second, that perhaps the
legislations passed by the legislature can regulate any individual in almost any area; third, that
neither regulations can bind subsequent parliamentarians; and lastly, that perhaps the court
system just don't have the authority to critique parliamentarians decision making.
Irrespective of the centrality of any of the notion of parliamentary sovereignty, it has been
recently subjected to various types of significant limits. In the year 1972. The United Kingdom