Essay On Parliamentary Sovereignty

Parliamentary sovereignty is a feature of Britain political system, it is a key principle of the U.K.’s uncodified constitution. Parliamentary sovereignty makes the Parliament the supreme legislative authority of Westminster which means Parliament has the right to make, amend and repeal laws. Overall, the courts cannot overrule the legislation unlike in other constitutions like the United states of America. No Parliament can pass laws that future Parliament cannot change. Although generally the U.K is often referred to having an unwritten constitution this is incorrect, in fact the UK has an uncodified constitution. This means that the U.K does not have a single written constitution, like other states such as the United states of America but large parts are written now

The first external sovereignty in the sense of the how independent the UK is regarding international law and the second is internal sovereignty which questioned the way power is exercised by institutions such as Parliament. there is no doubt that constitutional developments over the past years of the 20th century which has led to the argument of parliamentary sovereignty in theory and practice, particularly in relation to U.K.’s membership of the EU and the devolution of power in creation of the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly alongside the human rights act of 1998. nevertheless, in practice the three elements that A.V Dicey created have still been implacable and exercised in today’s parliament. with UK leaving the EU, in practice parliament’s will regain sovereignty. Because arguably, the only challenge that may reduce the sovereignty of Parliament comes from the EU whose court of justice can strike down the member states legislation which does not accord with EU primary legislation. So without the EU the U.K.’s parliament will be sovereign in theory but in practice it is still debatable if the Parliament is truly