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Since the advent of the popular franchise, the British Constitution has struggled to articulate what the relationship between the people and Parliament is. This chapter looks at this relationship through the lens of parliamentary supremacy: the doctrine that there are no substantive legal limits on the powers of Parliament. It traces developments in the political constitution relating to Parliament and notes that since 1911 there have been arguments about whether or not there was a convention limiting the exercise of parliamentary power. It then develops a theory linking the people and Parliament since the 1970s, and argues that this can best explain recent developments in British constitutional theory, including the litigation relating to the referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU.
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