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The Sovereignty of Parliament$
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Jeffrey Goldsworthy

Print publication date: 2001

Print ISBN-13: 9780199248087

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2010

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199248087.001.0001

After the Revolution

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(p. 159 ) 7 After the Revolution
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The Sovereignty of Parliament
Author(s):

Jeffrey Goldsworthy

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199248087.003.0007

This chapter begins with a discussion of Whig and Tory consesus about Parliament's legislative sovereignty. It then discusses the union of England and Scotland, the relationship between Parliament and the people it claimed to represent, law-making power and the constitutional principle, British opinion during the American crisis, American revolutionary constitutional theory, and the reform movement in Britain.

Keywords:   Parliament, Whigs, Tories, legislative sovereignty, constitutional theory

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