"The sovereignty of Parliament is something that I think voters hold very dear indeed, " he said.
He mused on how constrained they were: unable to initiate or annul anything, and subject to the sovereignty of Parliament.
In many Tory minds, Mr Blair's constitutional reforms, reducing the role of central government and diluting the sovereignty of Parliament, are all part of the same plot.
On 11 January 2011, as MPs debated the legislation at committee stage, Mr Connarty claimed that the leadership of the Conservative Party had "cloaked itself in Euroscepticism" by vowing before the general election to repatriate powers from EU institutions and to enshrine the sovereignty of Parliament over the EU in legislation.
At the end of the debate, MPs voted to reject a bid by Tory backbencher Bill Cash to amend the bill by adding the phrase, "The sovereignty of the United Kingdom Parliament is hereby reaffirmed, " by 314 votes to 39, a government majority of 275.
Many MPs argue the legislation is being rushed through Parliament, with insufficient opportunity to debate matters of constitutional significance for the workings and sovereignty of Parliament.
However, he stressed there was "a lot of flexibility" in the European ruling, and that Parliament had sovereignty over the issue of who was able to vote, as any change would require a Commons vote for amendments to the Representation of the People Act.
Al-Maliki also stressed that approving an agreement between the countries would require the approval of the Iraqi parliament and that the declaration of principles mentions national sovereignty as a basis for negotiations.
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He pledged to block any further "transfer of sovereignty or powers" to the EU over the course of this Parliament, promising to be more "robust" than Labour in defending Britain's national interest.
Germany is only the highest-profile euro country to oppose anything that threatens its financial sovereignty and to tout the near-sacred devotion of its parliament to budget discipline.
That legislature -- or parliament -- would then choose an executive administration to take over sovereignty of Iraq by the end of June.
That legislature -- or parliament -- would then choose a new executive administration to take over sovereignty of Iraq by the July 1 deadline set by the Bush administration in its agreement with the interim Iraqi Governing Council.
Prime Minister Gilani of Pakistan, in his address to Parliament today, seemed more focused on what his government sees as a violation of sovereignty in the Osama bin Laden raid and not as much on the issue of getting to the bottom of whether anyone in his government was complicit in sheltering bin Laden.
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