The Sovereignty of Parliament: History and Philosophy by Jeffrey Goldsworthy, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999
Ever since Lord Bryce published `The Decline of Legislatures' in 1921, the law-making function of parliaments has been largely ignored by academics, if not belittled. This has resulted in an inadequate understanding of the importance of the parliamentary system and the meaning of such fundamental concepts as the sovereignty of parliament. Jeffrey Goldsworthy, an Associate ...