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Given the attitudes of the Courts to the European Communities Act 1972 and Human Rights Act 1998, the notion of parliamentary sovereignty is now redundant within the UK constitution.

The concept of constitution has been introduced by the governments for the management of administrative policies and procedures in a state or country. Constitution pertains to an array of established precedents or basic principles that command the governing of an organization or a state. All these rules are combined together and formulate or constitute the nature of an entity. These principles, when written into a form of legal documents or a set of collections, form a document known as written constitution. The constitutions refer to the matters and issues of various organizational or state levels and this range from the unincorporated associations to the sovereign states and companies. Thus, every country acts according to its own constitutional provisions or reforms.

It is not true that, provided the attitudes of the Courts to the European Communities Act 1972 and Human Rights Act 1998, the notion of parliamentary sovereignty is now redundant within the UK constitution. The concept of parliamentary sovereignty holds that the country's legislative body possess all the eternal supremacy and sovereignty, and is graded above all the institutions of government that may also include judicial or executive bodies. It makes the legislative body an authority for repealing or changing any and every former legislation, and there is no binding on it by precedent or by written law. However, due to the initiation of several conventions and laws the parliamentary sovereignty has been limited in its powers and exercise during last few years. The judicial system of Britain have made the principle and laws of the Parliamentary sovereignty as such a foundation keystone which actually cannot be shaken or broken by any of the external treaties or acts. The continued sovereignty of the parliament is still guaranteed by all such measures.

Constitution of United Kingdom

The UK constitution pertains to the series of principles and laws that govern the United Kingdom and all its states. United Kingdom, unlike numerous other nations, does not possess a single document containing constitutions. This is usually known as unwritten or unmodified document of constitution where most of the British constitution is embedded in the form of written documents, in court judgments, statutes, and treaties. There are several other unwritten sources of the constitution and they include the royal prerogatives and parliamentary constitutional conventions (Alder, John, 2009).

It has been form the times of the Glorious Revolution, that the foundation of the constitution of Britain has been the conventional canon of parliamentary sovereignty. According to this doctrine, all the statutes that the British Parliament passes, they become the final and superior sources of law. It is apparent that the constitution of the country can be easily changed by the Parliament through adopting the simple procedure of passing new Acts of Parliament. There has been a lot of debate on the validity and authenticity of this principle since United Kingdom's ...