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In formal terms parliamentary authority in Britain is unlimited, as parliament can make or unmake law on any subject whatsoever, as William Blackstone, the eighteenth century jurist declared "Parliament can do everything that is not naturally impossible" (Coxall & Robins 1998, 214) as no person can question its legislative competence and the courts must give effect to its legislation. This Parliamentary Sovereignty is the dominating characteristic of the British constitution, however since Britain's involvement in the European Union, this sovereignty has been impaired as EU law is supr...
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