Parliamentary sovereignty refers to the law-making supremacy of Parliament within the UK constitution. The use of the word ‘sovereignty’ relates the doctrine to its history and the relationship between monarch and Parliament in the creation of Parliamentary legislation. Today some scholars prefer the term ‘Parliamentary supremacy’, which indicates that Parliament is more powerful than other law-making sources, rather than ‘sovereignty’, which suggests an all-powerful law-maker.
A. V. Dicey identified the characteristics of Parliamentary sovereignty in An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1885):
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