King-in-Parliament

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King-in-Parliament is the constitutional doctrine in the United Kingdom that vests supreme legislative authority jointly in the monarch, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons.

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Label Occurrences
King-in-Parliament canonical 2
King in Parliament 1
Queen-in-Parliament 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf constitutional doctrine
legislative authority
alsoKnownAs Crown-in-Parliament
King-in-Parliament
surface form: Queen-in-Parliament
appliesTo British Parliament
surface form: Parliament of the United Kingdom

Palace of Westminster
surface form: United Kingdom Parliament at Westminster
basedOn doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty
component House of Commons of the United Kingdom
surface form: House of Commons

House of Lords
monarch of the United Kingdom
constitutionalEffect centralization of legislative power in Parliament
constitutionalImplication no other body can override or set aside an Act of Parliament within UK law
constitutionalStatus fundamental principle of the UK constitution
contrastsWith separation of powers doctrine
country United Kingdom
defines supreme legislative authority in the United Kingdom
developedInPeriod Early Modern period
surface form: early modern England

late medieval England
field constitutional law
grantsPowerTo Parliament to make or unmake any law
hasPart Lords Spiritual in the House of Lords
surface form: Lords Spiritual and Temporal

Sovereign
elected members of the House of Commons
historicalOrigin English constitutional practice
influenced Westminster system constitutions
involves bicameral legislature
royal assent
jurisdiction England
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Wales
language English
legalForm statute law
limits legal authority of the courts to question Acts of Parliament
recognizedIn UK constitutional conventions
UK constitutional scholarship
relatedConcept parliamentary sovereignty
Royal prerogative of the United Kingdom
surface form: royal prerogative

unwritten constitution of the United Kingdom
requires assent of the House of Commons
assent of the House of Lords
assent of the monarch
requiresForLegislation granting of royal assent
passage of a bill by both Houses
result Act of Parliament
usedInContext constitutional interpretation in the UK
enactment of primary legislation

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Crown-in-Parliament alsoKnownAs King-in-Parliament
The Crown in right of Saint Kitts and Nevis associatedWithConcept King-in-Parliament
this entity surface form: the King-in-Parliament
King-in-Parliament alsoKnownAs King-in-Parliament
this entity surface form: Queen-in-Parliament
Irish Free State Oireachtas hasPart King-in-Parliament
this entity surface form: King in Parliament
the King-in-Council contrastsWith King-in-Parliament
subject surface form: King-in-Council