competing conceptions of the Westminster Parliament's sovereignty. In issue has been whether or how parliamentary sovereignty … of the Constitution'. The dichotomy was, on the one hand, of a formal legal conception of Parliament's sovereignty as … limitless in theory and, on the other hand, of a substantive political conception of its sovereignty as limited in actuality …

history, from the building of empires to the decolonisation era. Second, this volume reflects critically on the relevance of …