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Sovereignty in British Legal Doctrine

Author: Joaquin Varela Suanzes
Universidad de Oviedo - Spain
Subjects: Constitutional Law - British
Sovereignty (Other articles)
Sovereignty History
Issue: Volume 6, Number 3 (September 1999)
Category: Comment

Abstract

Professor Valera-Suanzes outlines 600 years of British Legal Doctrine, specifically the changing concept of sovereignty in British Legal Doctrine from the days of Bracton to those of Dicey and including such eminent British Legal Scholars such as Hume, Hobbes, Locke, Mill, and Blackstone. The article discusses the changing perspective of where sovereignty reside and the relationship between the Monarch, the Commons, the Lords and the people.

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