EC Membership and Judicialization of British Politics [Hardcover]

The Law Lords have attributed the supremacy of European Community law in Britain to Parlaiment's 'entirely voluntary' surrender of sovereignty. This book describes, from a Parliamentary perspective, how sovereignty was actually lost. It charts the evolution of MP's constitutional understandings of EC membership and the transformation from a constitution based on politics to one based on law.

1. Introduction
2. The First Two Attempts to Join the EEC
3. The Heath White Paper and the Vote on Entry
4. The Passage of the European Communities Bill 1972
5. The Irish Comparison
6. From Accession to `Factortame'
7. From `Factortame' to the Working Time Directive Case
8. The Bill of Rights Comparison
9. Conclusion
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