From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...]
The "supremacy of Parliament" is only that no
Parliament can bind its successors. In other words later
Parliaments have the power to repeal Statute law passed
by earlier ones. The authority for this statement is the
following maxim of the common law from Blackstones
Commentaries 14th Ed p160;
"Acts derogatory to the power of subsequent
Parliaments bind not".
[...]
Such is interesting, because if the first part is true,
then Parliament cannot pass any law, which has as its intent,
the disarmament of the citizen.
Parliament derives its power to operate from somewhere,
and if that 'somewhere' also guarantees the individual right to
arms, then Parliament cannot ignore any part of that authority;
for to do so is in essence to say that Parliament is a supra-legal
authority having powers to operate where it may.
If one Parliament cannot dictate to subsequent
assemblages of the same body, then it follows that neither may
any prior or present assemblage declaim the essence of the law
which provides it the authority to assemble to begin with.
Either the original law which provides for that power
to operate is still intact, or your nation's power structure has
been severely altered without your being assessed of it.
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