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This 10 page paper considers what is meant by parliamentary sovereignty and how this manifests. The paper then looks at the UK’s membership of the European Union and how this membership may potentially erode sovereignty. The paper also examines how the potential erosion is kept to a minimum with checks and balances. The bibliography cites 12 sources.
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European Union. This is a basic element of the unwritten constitution and the way in which the law and society operate, therefore, this may be seen as creating the
need for major changes. To examine this the way in which sovereignty is held needs to be considered and then the threats or the criticisms of erosion may be more
apparent. To look at this the concept as it has traditionally stood needs to be considered and then the way that this has or may change within the EU.
There is a great deal of history to this, dating back to 1215 and the Magna Carta. However, where we will begin out consideration during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries
a constitutional struggle took place between the Sovereignty and Parliament. The Tudors avoided any confrontations through hard and ruthless measures, but Charles I actually dissolved Parliament and tried to claim
his Prerogative rights these were strongly opposed by the common law judges and later Parliament(Barker and Padfield 1994). James II totally defied Parliament and in doing so caused the bloodless
revolution and in 1688 he was forced to give up the throne and flee to France (Barker and Padfield 1994). In 1689 Parliament invited William of Orange and his wife
Mary to take the Crown on the proviso that they abided by the Bill of Rights. This one document gave Parliament the power it needed(Barker and Padfield 1994). This
forming of the Bill of Rights that gave overall power to Parliament, and that the King and or future monarchs could not in future dominate or supersede any further Acts
of Parliament or have an exercise of power greater than those of Parliament without a check from those whose representatives sat in the Houses of Parliament(Barker and Padfield 1994). The
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