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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Parliamentary Sovereignty

Ángel Aday Jiménez Alemán

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
September 2018

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 10 October 2024

Subject(s):
Constitutional processes — Judicial review of legislation — Powers and jurisdiction of constitutional courts/supreme courts — Judicial review — Parliamentary systems

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1 By ‘parliamentary sovereignty’ we mean the legal doctrine that states that ‘legislators’ legal authority is boundless. Everything that is enacted is legally valid; nothing that is enacted can be questioned in legal (as distinct from political or moral) terms (Elliot; see also legislative bodies; legislative powers). 2 Parliamentary sovereignty has gradually ceased to be the rule and it has become the exception in contemporary global constitutionalism. This fact was very difficult to predict by observing the evolution of the first 150 years of modern...
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