How does the English constitution allocate political questions to political bodies???
The allocation of political and judicial issues is matter of both convention and law. We have a constitution not a Constitution. There is de facto seperation of powers recognised by constitutional convention but no formal demarcation in one document describing the division of responsibility between the three.All three branches of Government are partly subject to various pieces of legislation and also partly subject to various constitutional conventions : long standing custom and practice in various areas. By convention the will of Parliament is supreme.Parliament can therefore in theory reserve to itself any matter it wants to.However it is also subject to the rule of law and the constitutional doctrine of seperation of powers.It can make new laws but cannot otherwise interfere with judicial decisions or day to day Court processes including adjudicating on cases brought before the Courts.Such matters are ‘sub judice’. Equally the Courts are subject to the will of Parliament but only to