Parliamentary Sovereignty

This book has four main themes: (1) a criticism of ''common law constitutionalism'', the theory that Parliament''s authority is conferred by, and therefore is or can be made subordinate to, judge-made common law; (2) an analysis of Parliament''s ability to abdicate, limit or regulate the exercise of its own authority, including a revision of Dicey''s conception of sovereignty, a repudiation of the...