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Parliament can make laws concerning anything. No parliament can bind a future parliament (that is, it cannot pass a law that cannot be changed or reversed by a future parliament). A valid Act of Parliament cannot be questioned by the court. Parliament is the supreme lawmaker.
Parliament repealed the Stamp Act because boycotts were hurting British trade and used the declaration to justify the repeal and avoid humiliation. The declaration stated that the Parliament's authority was the same in America as in Britain and asserted Parliament's authority to pass laws that were binding on the American colonies.
The traditional view put forward by A. V. Dicey is that parliament had the power to make any law except any law that bound its successors. Formally speaking however, the present state that is the UK is descended from the international Treaty of Union between England and Scotland in 1706/7 which led to the creation of the "Kingdom of Great Britain".
' Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich '), [1] was a law that gave the German Cabinet – most importantly, the Chancellor – the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or Weimar President Paul von Hindenburg, leading to the rise of Nazi Germany. Critically, the Enabling Act allowed the Chancellor to ...
Royal assent is the method by which a monarch formally approves an act of the legislature, either directly or through an official acting on the monarch's behalf. In some jurisdictions, royal assent is equivalent to promulgation, while in others that is a separate step.
Protestants may have arms for their defence suitable to their conditions and as allowed by law; election of members of Parliament ought to be free; the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament;
In the Parliament of India, every bill passes through following stages before it becomes an Act of Parliament of India: [4] First reading – introduction stage: Any member, or member-in-charge of the bill seeks the leave of the house to introduce a bill. If the bill is an important one, the minister may make a brief speech, stating its main ...
An Act to continue, until the first Day of March one thousand eight hundred and three, an Act made in the thirty-third Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, [c] for establishing Courts of Judicature in the Island of Newfoundland; and to continue until the Expiration of forty Days after the Commencement of the next Session of Parliament ...