This book analyses and defends parliamentary sovereignty, its compatibility with recent constitutional developments, and Parliament's capacity to control its own sovereignty.

Jeffrey Goldsworthy holds a Personal Chair in the Faculty of Law at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, where his major interests are legal philosophy, and constitutional law, theory and history.

1. Introduction; 2. The myth of the common law constitution; 3. Legislative sovereignty and the rule of law; 4. Homogenising constitutions; 5. Abdicating and limiting Parliament's sovereignty; 6. Trethowan's case; 7. Requirements as to procedure or form for legislating; 8. Judicial review, legislative override, and democracy; 9. Parliamentary sovereignty and statutory interpretation; 10. Challenging parliamentary sovereignty: past, present and future.