Parliamentary Sovereignty and EU Law Supremacy

L437 (New Edition)

Parliamentary Sovereignty and EU Law Supremacy

“Membership of the Institutions of the European Union is Incompatible with Parliamentary Sovereignty”

“There is no question of any erosion of essential national sovereignty,” insisted Tory Prime Minister Edward Health. Yet, after the United Kingdom accepted the Treaty of Accession in 1972, 2,900 EU regulations and 410 directives were incorporated into English law. National legislature lost some of its sovereignty as the European Union was given increased powers. These rulings call into doubt the concept of parliamentary sovereignty, which is the cornerstone of the British legal system and helps to guarantee that parliament retains control. These concerns are not ill-founded. EU membership imposes a number…