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As a lawyer , I find these matters too high for me . The self-governing colonies , on the other hand , up at any rate till 1884 , just because they were more and more left alone and free to manage their own affairs , though they occasionally resented the interference of the English Government with colonial legislation , were on the whole contented with things as they stood . Moreover , of the powers ascribed to the Crown , some are in reality exercised by the Government , whilst others do not in truth belong either to the King or to the Ministry . This fact has in recent days become so patent that eminent thinkers are to be found who certainly use language which implies that the authority or the sovereignty of the nation , or even the conception of the national will , is a sort of political or metaphysical fiction which wise men will do well to discard . The principle , therefore , of parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this , namely that " Parliament " has " the right to make or unmake any law whatever ; and further , that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament , " 8 and further that this right or 1 Compare the Introduction to the second edition of Law and Public Opinion in England during the Nineteenth Century . As every lawyer knows , the estate does not mean the land . Queen Elizabeth at a time when the King or Queen of England was not indeed the absolute sovereign of the country , but was certainly the most important part of the sovereign power , namely Parliament.110 In this Introduction the referendum , or the people 's veto , is considered simply with reference to Bills passed by the Houses of Parliament but which have not received the royal assent . As the bailee recovered the whole value of the goods , the old reason , that he was answerable over , has in some cases become a new rule , ( seemingly based on a misunderstanding , ) that the bailee is a trustee for the bailor as to the excess over his own damage . The Acts of Union ( to one of which Blackstone calls attention ) afford a remarkable example of the exertion of Parliamentary authority .