Parliamentary Sovereignty and Brexit: Impact on UK's Law Making Process

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

INTRODUCTION
The term 'Parliamentary Sovereignty' means that the power of administering the matters of
the state is vested with the parliament of the country. Basically, this states that the parliament is the
supreme power which is above all the other law making authorities. It might delegate the power to
the subordinate authorities in terms of making laws on certain issues but the supremacy in this case
will lie in the hands of the parliament itself. For the purpose of making laws, the parliament holds
unlimited powers and no other governmental authority can override the legislations that are decided
by the parliament for the country. It has the cognition to make or unmake the laws which it may
thinks fit. The courts are required to interpret and observe the laws or the statutes which are
sanctioned by the parliament in any regard(Thissen, et.al, 2020). The adjudicating authority cannot
overshadow the acts made by the law making authority, that is the parliament. When United
Kingdom get itself separated from the European Union, they acquired their control over the
parliamentary authority. Earlier, when Britain was a part of the union, it was being observed that,
slowly and gradually, it started overtaking the power of the parliament. This report talks about the
concept of parliamentary sovereignty in terms of the UK. After exiting the union, UK is now free to
exercise its powers in order to make laws.
MAIN BODY
The term 'Brexit' means Britain's exit from the European Union. The UK formally got
separated from the EU in the year 2020, after the public voting held in the year 2016. This
detachment from the union affected the United Kingdom in both negative and positive
manner(Crowley, Exton and Han, 2018). But one thing is being observed from the separation that