Constituent Power and the Challenge to Parliamentary Sovereignty

<p dir="ltr">Parliamentary sovereignty, also known as legislative sovereignty, legislative supremacy, or parliamentary supremacy, is a legal, philosophical, and political doctrine according to which the legislature has unlimited law-making power. While it can be studied from a political standpoint, in this paper I approach parliamentary sovereignty from a legal perspective, treating it as a legal doctrine, and more particularly a doctrine of constitutional jurisprudence. In this sense, it is closely associated with the ‘unwritten’ constitutions of the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Israel, and can be contrasted with the doctrines of limited legislative power that typically prevail in jurisdictions with codified constitutions.</p>