Concept Of Parliamentary Sovereignty

Definition of Parliamentary Sovereignty

Sovereignty relates to the political and legal concept of ultimate authority in a state and to that state’s freedom from external control, it also means complete, unbridled, supreme power. In a much simpler line legislative sovereignty means that the legislature is the supreme law of the land and no other law or body can challenge it. The doctrine of Parliamentary Sovereignty is a concept of constitutional law(a body of law defining the relationship of different entities within a state mainly the Legislative, Executive and Judiciary) stating that the Parliament is the supreme legal authority of a state having the power to create or end any law independent of its source. Albert Venn "A. V." Dicey KC

These three principles when brought together forms the supremacy of the parliament.

Firstly, the parliament has the right to make as well as unmake law on anything, it is not limited or excluded from any matters. Its powers reach every aspect of the society and there is no limit on the subject matter on which it can legislate. Taken in a quite extreme example it can be said to have the right to legally make a man into woman, it can even make babies born of a certain characteristics such as white skin put to death but as said earlier it is a very extreme example. Even the Court who is a body of Justice cannot over rule any of its law even though it is an unjustified law but only if it is a valid act. In short no one or any such body can set aside an act of

The acts were the acts of the King, and their authority, fortified by counsel and consent. In 1539 in UK there was the declaration of the Statute of Proclamations which gave the King extremely wide powers for legislation without being approved or even referenced to the Parliament: meaning the King could make any law it wanted without referring or consulting to the Parliament: it was a legislative body dependent only of the King itself: the King was sovereign concerning law making. In 1611 the case of proclamations established that only the parliament had the right to make laws and that the crown could apply it. The principle of legislative supremacy played an important role in English Civil War: Royalists argued that power held by the King, and delegated to parliament, challenged by the Parliamentarians (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_sovereignty_in_the_United_Kingdom). Finally in 1689 the Bill of Rights removed the royal. In the same year Earl of Shaftesbury "The Parliament of England is that supreme and absolute power, which gives life and motion to the English government"