Parliamentary Sovereignty.
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Parliamentary Sovereignty The traditional view expressed by Dicey and others is that Parliament (or strictly, the Queen in Parliament) is sovereign and can make or unmake any law on any subject whatsoever, without legal constraints, but there must now be some doubt as to its truth. Parliament is certainly restricted by the UK's membership of the European Union, and other international treaties such as the European Convention on Human Rights may also have put some limits on its freedom to legislate Legislative process Members of the House of Commons are elected by the whole adult population every four or five years , it is the Leader of the Majority Party who is Prime Minister and who effectively appoints other Ministers and junior members of the Government. The traditional role of the Commons is to "hold the government to account" by questioning and challenging Ministers, and it is the Commons that must approve measures...


