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ACCORDING TO MARTIN LOUGHLIN, "SOVEREIGNTY DIVIDED IS SOVEREIGNTY DESTROYED" - DOES THIS ASSERTION MAKE SENSE IN THE LIGHT OF THE UK'S MEMBERSHIP OF THE EU? 'A federal Europe does not mean the abolition of state sovereignty itself, but its partial or total transference to a different level, deemed more capable of exercising it with efficacy.'1 Introduction A response to Loughlin's claim is dependent on a comphrehensive analysis of a number of concepts and doctrines. Firstly, the unique character of the UK's constitutional status, manifested in the sovereignty and supremacy of Parliament, provides the key areas of objection to the division of sovereignty and contributes to the assertion that it is somewhat destroyed by EU membership. However, Loughlin's definition of sovererignty must also be examined in order to substantiate the argument that his particular reading of the concept fails to consider anything other than a juristic perpective, hence rendering it only partly useful. Therefore,...

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