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Regaining Sovereignty? Brexit, the UK Parliament and the Common Law.
- Source :
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European Public Law . Mar2016, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p131-147. 17p. - Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- In this paper, we compare how the term 'sovereignty' was used by MPs in parliamentary debates on the European Communities Bill in 1971-1972 and the European Union Bill in 2011. In both cases, the language of sovereignty was often a placeholder for deeper concerns about the erosion of the political power exercisable by domestic political institutions. Comparing parliamentary debates separated by almost forty years reveals a shift from concerns primarily about the erosion of sovereignty by the law-making powers of European political institutions towards concerns about its erosion by the courts, and the domestic courts at that. We reflect on these concerns to evaluate whether a possible UK withdrawal from the EU would lead to a 'regaining' of sovereignty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *SOVEREIGNTY
*COMMON law
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13543725
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- European Public Law
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 112942879
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.54648/euro2016008