British Sovereignty&Europe
How has British Sovereignty been compromised by membership of the European Union?The word sovereignty itself means the legitimate location of power of last resort over any community. It may be defined purely in legal terms as the power to make binding laws which no other body can break. It may be viewed as the autonomous power of a community to govern itself, a territorial concept relating to the powers of independent nation states. A.V. Dicey defined British Parliamentary Sovereignty in 1885 as ‘Parliament has the right to make or unmake any law whatsoever, and that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having the right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament’. This has often stood out as the linchpin of the British Constitution and Hood Philips, a twentieth century constitutional lawyer called it ‘the one fundamental rule of the British Constitution’ Parliamentary sovereignty was effectively negated in 1973 when Britain joined the European Union which has injected a whole new judicial dimension into the constitution of Britain. This meant that the British parliament lost legal and legislative sovereignty both de jure and de facto (both in theory and practise) in areas where European l
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Approximate Word count = 1120
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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