Bibliographic record
Abstract
Perhaps the most long-standing debate concerning English Parliamentary sovereignty is whether Parliament’s legislative authority can be subject to certain formal or procedural requirements that must be fulfilled before a purported statute concerned by such requirements can be recognised as a statute or be enforceable, namely “manner and form” conditions. This article makes the argument that English Parliamentary sovereignty is reconcilable with the manner and form theory. It begins with a brief overview of the “traditional view” of Parliamentary sovereignty followed by an explanation of the manner and form theory. After setting out these two competing views of Parliamentary sovereignty, the argument will proceed along three propositions. Firstly, from a comparative perspective, the logical implications of the “Commonwealth cases” are that manner and form conditions would bind a legislative body which possesses the same characteristics as the English Parliament. Thus, these cases should be considered as persuasive. Secondly, in R. (Jackson) v. A.G. [2006] 1 A.C. 262 (H.L.), the majority of the Law Lords explicitly or implicitly accepted the manner and form theory. Such an acceptance would derive from their holding that, following the enactment of the Parliament Act 1911, Parliament has successfully redefined itself or created a new method of enacting legislation. And thirdly, the attitudes of that other key constitutional actor, namely Parliament, and of “senior officials” of the legislative branch suggest that the legislative branch would accept the manner and form theory.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".