The consequences of Brexit for the constitutional system of the Great Britain

Occupation: Leading Researcher, Department of Jurisprudence
Affiliation: Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION)
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow

Journal name

Gosudarstvo i pravo

Edition

Issue 1

Pages

114-122

Abstract

The vote in the 2016 referendum on exit from the EU was held under the slogan “take back con-trol”, which, in particular, meant the return of parliamentary sovereignty, lost as a result of the transfer of some powers to the supranational level and the impossibility for the UK Parliament to influence decisions taken in Brussels. However, in the process of withdrawal, the UK faced a number of constitutional problems that led to one of the most serious constitutional crises in the history of British parliamentarism, caused by the clash of parliamentary and popular sovereignty, on the one hand, and the lack of a written constitution clearly delineating the powers of the three branches of government, on the other hand. This article is devoted to the analysis of the conse-quences of this crisis for the stability of the traditional constitutional system of Great Britain.

Keywords

Brexit, parliamentary sovereignty, popular sovereignty, written constitution, soft law, common law constitutionalism, referendum

Received

12.01.2022

Publication date

20.02.2023

Number of characters

34169

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GOST	Kodaneva S. The consequences of Brexit for the constitutional system of the Great Britain // Gosudarstvo i pravo – 2023. – Issue 1 C. 114-122 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://gospravo-journal.ru/S102694520024108-9-1 (circulation date: 29.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S102694520024108-9
MLA	Kodaneva, Svetlana I "The consequences of Brexit for the constitutional system of the Great Britain." Gosudarstvo i pravo `1 (2023):114-122. DOI: 10.31857/S102694520024108-9
APA	Kodaneva S. (2023). The consequences of Brexit for the constitutional system of the Great Britain. Gosudarstvo i pravo (`1), pp.114-122 DOI: 10.31857/S102694520024108-9

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