Abstract
The central function of Parliament is to make the statute law of the land. Even the historic purpose of Parliament to raise revenue for the maintenance of the Sovereign’s government is expressed in the form of law through the Finance Acts and Consolidated Fund Acts. Not all the law of the United Kingdom is enshrined in Acts of Parliament, and the Courts which administer our system of law also draw upon the common law, especially following the precedents of previous cases, but an increasing proportion of all United Kingdom law is contained in statutes bearing the authority of Parliament. The preamble of every Act of Parliament states that that Act is made by the monarch of the day, by and with the advice and consent of Parliament, indicating that, in our form of constitutional monarchy, sovereignty is vested in the monarch within the assembly of Parliament. The last monarch to veto a proposed Act of Parliament was Queen Anne in 1707 on the Militia (Scotland) Bill, since when the royal assent has been given to all parliamentary Bills which have completed their procedure through Parliament and which have become Acts by virtue of that assent.
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