Like many others, Sharp accepted the supremacy of Parliament as an institution, but did not believe that this power was without restraint, and thought that Parliament could not repeal Magna Carta.
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"The really important thing is the legality and supremacy of Parliament, " said Qazi Hussein Ahmed, leader of Jamaat-e-Islami, the largest party in the Muslim alliance.
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By that event, a new supremacy of parliament was established, which itself was one of the principles of whiggism, much as it had been the chief principle of the Roundheads in an earlier generation.
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Jamali on Friday sounded a conciliatory note, saying the government believed in the supremacy of Parliament, while Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz brushed off concern about the budget debate, saying he hoped the opposition would not create problems.
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"There was no need to change the prime minister, but he was forced to resign, " Rahman told lawmakers . " We are working for the supremacy of parliament and our journey toward it will continue ."
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"We are not opposed to disinvestment per se, we are not opposed to reform, but the Supreme Court has now reimposed the supremacy of Parliament, " said Priyanjan Das Munshi, from the main opposition Congress party.
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"We are in touch with all opposition parties to get their support in favor of Hashmi, " he told The Associated Press . " All those lawmakers who think they are democratic and believe in the rule of law, supremacy of parliament and the constitution, should vote for Hashmi ."
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Over the centuries, the English Parliament progressively limited the power of the English monarchy which arguably culminated in the English Civil War and the trial and execution of Charles II, and the subsequent Glorious Revolution of 1688, the supremacy of Parliament was a settled principle and all future English and later British sovereigns were restricted to the role of constitutional monarchs with limited executive authority.
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In " MacCormick v . Lord Advocate " ( 1953 ), an action over the legitimacy of the numeric Style of the British Sovereign, asserting only the style Great Britain at the time of the Act of Union 1707, a corpus of law which the supremacy of Parliament may not extend to altering as the principle of unlimited sovereignty of Parliament is a distinctively English principle and has no counterpart in Scottish constitutional law .
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Addressing the legislature, Hutchinson argued that denying the supremacy of Parliament, as some committees had done, came dangerously close to rebellion . " I know of no line that can be drawn ", he said, " between the supreme authority of Parliament and the total independence of the colonies . " Adams and the House responded that the Massachusetts Charter did not establish Parliament's supremacy over the province, and so Parliament could not claim that authority now.
