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BBC Parliament is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel from the BBC that showcases parliamentary content from across the United Kingdom. It broadcasts live and recorded coverage of the British Parliament (House of Commons, House of Lords and Select Committees), the Scottish Parliament, the London Assembly, the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Senedd.
The terms "parliamentary sovereignty" and "parliamentary supremacy" are often used interchangeably. The term "sovereignty" implies a similarity to the question of national sovereignty. [4] While writer John Austin and others have looked to combine parliamentary and national sovereignty, this view is not universally held.
They have varying degrees of delegated internal self-governance. The UK counts a total of 14 such territories. [2] This includes the UK's view that its Antarctic claim is a dependency, though internationally its legal status is governed by the Antarctic Treaty. Anguilla; Bermuda; British Indian Ocean Territory; Cayman Islands; Falkland Islands ...
Sovereign states have sovereignty; any ingroup's claim to have a state faces some practical limits via the degree to which other states recognize them as such. Satellite states are states that have de facto sovereignty but are often indirectly controlled by another state. Definitions of a state are disputed.
A sovereign state is a political association with effective sovereignty over a population for whom it makes decisions in the national interest. [11] According to the Montevideo Convention, a state must have a permanent population, a defined territory, a government, and the capacity to enter into relations with other states. [12]
The dominant customary international law standard of statehood is the declarative theory of statehood, which was codified by the Montevideo Convention of 1933. The Convention defines the state as a person of international law if it "possess[es] the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) a capacity to enter into relations with the ...
The UK's membership in the Union has been a major topic of debate over the years and has been objected to over questions of sovereignty, [85] and in recent years there have been divisions in both major parties over whether the UK should form greater ties within the EU, or reduce the EU's supranational powers.
There have been proposals for the establishment of a single devolved English Parliament to govern the affairs of England as a whole. This has been supported by groups such as English Commonwealth, the English Democrats and Campaign for an English Parliament, as well as the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru who have both expressed support for greater autonomy for all four nations while ...