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The sovereignty of Parliament is (from a legal point of view) the dominant characteristic of our political institutions.
Cf. Intro. pp. xxxiv et seq., ante.
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Hallam, Constitutional History of England (1884 ed.), vol. iii, p. 236.
See Stubbs, Constitutional History of England, vol. i (1874), pp. 126–128, and vol. ii (1875), pp. 245–247.
See Stubbs, Constitutional History of England, vol. ii (1875), pp. 239, 486, 513–515.
Gardiner, History of England, vol. iii (1883), pp. 1–5; cf. as to Bacon’s view of the prerogative, Abbott, Francis Bacon (1885), pp. 140, 260, 279.
Cf. Iunes, Law of Creeds in Scotland(1867), pp. 118–121.
See Austin, Jurisprudence (4th ed., 1879), vol. i, pp. 251–255. Compare Austin’s language as to the sovereign body under the constitution of the United States (ibid. p. 268).
Cf. Jennings, The Law and the Constitution (4th ed., 1952), pp. 144–145.
Stephen, Science of Ethics (1882), p. 143; cf. Jennings, op. cit., p. 143. “ Parliament passes many laws which many people do not want. But it never passes any laws which any substantial section of the population violently dislikes.”
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Dicey, A.V. (1979). The Nature of Parliamentary Sovereignty. In: Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17968-8_2
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