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“The classical principle of parliamentary sovereignty has been radically altered as a result of the European Communities Act 1972 and the Human Rights Act 1998.” DISCUSS
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"The classical principle of parliamentary sovereignty has been radically altered as a result of the European Communities Act 1972 and the Human Rights Act 1998." DISCUSS The concept of parliamentary sovereignty means that Parliament is the supreme legal authority in the UK. In many countries, for example, the USA; the legislature is limited by the Constitution in the laws it can or cannot make. The U.S. Supreme Court can declare laws passed by the legislature to be unconstitutional and therefore invalid. The traditional view in the UK however, is that Parliament is not subject to any legal limitation and that the UK courts have no power to declare laws duly passed by Parliament invalid. This is largely accountable to the fact that there is no overriding written constitution against which the validity of the parliament's enactments may be tested. Legislative supremacy means that the Queen in Parliament has unlimited...
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