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How Far Could it be Argued that Parliament Has Lost Sovereignty?
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How Far Could it be Argued that Parliament Has Lost Sovereignty? In the 1880's a man named Dicey said that sovereignty lies with Parliament. However, various people argued with his theory by saying if people voted for Parliament then sovereignty must lie with the people. Dicey countered this by stating that there were two types of sovereignty, legal and political. He said that legal sovereignty lay with Parliament as they make the laws while political sovereignty lay with the people on election day. However Norton argued in the 1900's that 'If one accepts that sovereignty is indivisible, how can one have two distinct bodies (the electorate and Parliament) each exercising sovereignty?' Also, Government ministers are legally responsible to the monarch and they are strictly 'Ministers of the Crown' but by convention, they are responsible to parliament because as Dicey said, sovereignty lies with parliament. In 1885, Dicey stated that in his...
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