Supremacy of Parliament
Wallace-Macpherson
<jpk_...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> If it is the case that the UK Parliament is "supreme", does this mean that
> it would be impossible to a enact written constitution?
Why not contact some of the people who are proposing reform and ask how
they think it can be achieved? E.g.
Charter 88
The Green Party, if I understand their on-line publications, proposes
that a written constitution be prepared then put before the people in a
referendum.
Rather more adventurous, see Republican Alliance
http://www.geocities.com/republicanalliance/ and
Citizens' Initiative I&R, proposes to introduce elements of direct
democracy - see discussion about how this can be achieved, for instance
in the chapter Promoters of democratic change, section The campaigners,
in the report Prospects for more democracy in Great Britain and
Northern Ireland via http://www.iniref.org/learn.html
Cheers
Wallace-Macpherson
athomik
news:110220021313297708%w...@SPAMNOTiniref.org...
> In article <a3m9l5$asc$1...@ucsnew1.ncl.ac.uk>, David Marx
> <jpk_...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If it is the case that the UK Parliament is "supreme", does this mean
that
> > it would be impossible to a enact written constitution?
>
> Why not contact some of the people who are proposing reform and ask how
> they think it can be achieved? E.g.
>
As long as any of the above are carried out with the consent of Parliament,
why shouldn't it be possible? Parliament is bound by it's own rules so some
sort of constitution approved by them should be no different. Although,
technically, anything they introduce can also be repealed, so we don't have
a mechanism to introduce anything too permanent (Unless parliament first
repeals the right for them to repeal anything they fancy).
--
athomik