caa a22 4500 388061537 CHVBK 20180307125122.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199804 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1111/j.1477-7053.1998.tb00788.x doi S0017257X00004565 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1111/j.1477-7053.1998.tb00788.x Beloff Lord Amery on the Constitution: Britain and the European Union [Elektronische Daten] [Lord Beloff] IT WAS ASSUMED BY AMERY THAT THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION WAS AN important topic for study and something which might require further reform, because with the rest of his generation he took it for granted that the Constitution was itself wholly under the control of the British people through their indigenous institutions. Parliamentary sovereignty could only be understood in the light of sovereignty in the sense of political independence. At the time he was writing the importance of this basic concept had been reinforced by recent experience. Many European countries had lost their sovereignty through the imposition of German rule and had only had it restored to them by a massive military effort in which Britain had played no mean part. In their turn, the victorious allies had deprived Germany of its sovereignty and were through the occupation regimes starting on a path which it was hoped would lead, as indeed it did, to a Germany purged of the Nazi virus. Government and Opposition Cambridge University Press 33/2(1998-04), 167-182 0017-257X 33:2<167 1998 33 GOV https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1998.tb00788.x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1998.tb00788.x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Beloff Lord NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Government and Opposition Cambridge University Press 33/2(1998-04), 167-182 0017-257X 33:2<167 1998 33 GOV CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge