The consequences of Brexit for the constitutional system of the Great Britain
- Authors: Kodaneva S.I.1
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Affiliations:
- Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION)
- Issue: No 1 (2023)
- Pages: 114-122
- Section: Abroad
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1026-9452/article/view/126388
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S102694520024108-9
- ID: 126388
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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.
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Svetlana I. Kodaneva
Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION)
Author for correspondence.
Email: kodanevas@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Moscow
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