Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886. Excerpt: ... now stands limited and settled according to the existing laws, and to the terms of the union between England and Scotland. (iii.) That the said United Kingdom be represented in one and the same Parliament, to be styled " the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland." § 3. The Sovereignty Of Parliament. The sovereignty of the Imperial Parliament is the first principle of constitutional law; it is the ultimate fact of the Constitution; it is recognised as the fundamental principle by every court of justice throughout the length and breadth of the Empire. The import of the term "sovereignty" might give rise even now to--and has in the past been the source of--much philosophic and historical discussion. Its practical import in the daily business of political life and the courts of law can be fixed with sufficient precision. Let us turn, for instance, to an acknowledged authority--' Wheaton's International Law." The writer of that work defines "sovereignty" as "the supreme power by which any state is governed," and he defines "a sovereign state as being that of a people or nation, whatever may be the form of its internal constitution, which governs itself independently of foreign Lawrence's Wheaton, p. 35. powers." This supreme power, he says, may be exercised either externally or internally. "Internal sovereignty is that which is inherent in the people of any state, or vested in its ruler by its municipal constitution or fundamental laws." t "External sovereignty consists in the independence of one political society in respect of all other political societies." + The question then is: Does this proposed Bill deprive the Imperial Parliament of the internal or external sovereignty of the Empire? Does it limit the power of the Imperia...
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