WHY IS PARLIAMENT SOVEREIGN?
According to AV Dicey the word sovereignty is used to describe the idea of ‘the power of law making unrestricted by any legal limit’. Parliamentary sovereignty is part of the uncodified constitution of the United Kingdom. It dictates that Parliament can make or unmake any laws as it is the ultimate legal authority in the UK. Dicey in ‘Law of the Constitution (1885)’ commented ‘in theory Parliament has total power. It is sovereign’. He states a number of reasons as to how this is possible. Firstly Dicey points out that Parliament is capable of passing laws on any subject without legal restriction therefore it is sovereign. This principle is derived from the election of the Members of Parliament (MPs), by the electorate which gives them authority to represent and pass legislation on their behalf. Supremacy of Parliament can be traced back to the Bill of Rights 1689 where it was described that the monarch alone could not pass or repeal laws without Parliament’s consent. Parliament is also
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