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R (Jackson) v Attorney General [2005] UKHL 56 is a House of Lords case noted for containing obiter comments by the judiciary acting in their official capacity [note 1] suggesting that there may be limits to parliamentary sovereignty, the orthodox position being that it is unlimited in the United Kingdom.
Parliamentary sovereignty, also called parliamentary supremacy or legislative supremacy, is a concept in the constitutional law of some parliamentary democracies.It holds that the legislative body has absolute sovereignty and is supreme over all other government institutions, including executive or judicial bodies.
I.A.O. delegation headed by Sergei Popov (c.) meeting Greek Alternate Minister of European Affairs Nikos Hountis (r.). Inspired by a conference held from 30 June to 4 July 1993 in Chalkidiki on the topic of "Orthodoxy in the New European Reality", the European Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy was formed by the initiative of the Hellenic Parliament. [2]
Views on parliamentary sovereignty and rule of law: Title: Professor of Jurisprudence and Public Law, University of Cambridge: Academic background; Education: St Albans School: Alma mater: Worcester College, Oxford: Academic work; Discipline: Legal academic: Sub-discipline: constitutional theory, civil liberties, legal and political theory ...
The concept of parliamentary sovereignty was central to the English Civil War: Royalists argued that power was held by the king, and delegated to Parliament, a view which was challenged by the Parliamentarians. [7] The issue of taxation was a significant power struggle between Parliament and the king during the Stuart period. If Parliament had ...
The Constitution consists of 120 articles, in four parts: . The first part (articles 1–3), Basic Provisions, establishes Greece as a presidential parliamentary democracy (or republic – the Greek δημοκρατία can be translated both ways), and confirms the prevalence of the Orthodox Church in Greece.
KYIV (Reuters) -The Ukrainian parliament gave initial approval on Thursday to a law that would ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church after Kyiv accused it of collaborating with Russia following last ...
It has likewise been used to describe the Eastern Orthodox view of symphonia [4] and the works of the Protestant reformers Martin Luther [5] and John Calvin. [ 6 ] [ page needed ] There is a long history in Christian political thought of linking politics, statecraft, and worldly authority to the broader category of carnal literalism, typed as ...