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The British Parliament, established as the supreme legislative body by the Bill of Rights in 1689 and the Act of Settlement in 1701, holds legislative power above the monarch and exercises parliamentary sovereignty. Its key functions include legislation, debating, scrutiny, and oversight of government spending, with bills requiring royal assent to become law. The monarch serves a symbolic role, while the Prime Minister, appointed by the monarch, leads the government and holds executive powers.

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The British Parliament, established as the supreme legislative body by the Bill of Rights in 1689 and the Act of Settlement in 1701, holds legislative power above the monarch and exercises parliamentary sovereignty. Its key functions include legislation, debating, scrutiny, and oversight of government spending, with bills requiring royal assent to become law. The monarch serves a symbolic role, while the Prime Minister, appointed by the monarch, leads the government and holds executive powers.

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The British Parliament passed the Bill of Rights in 1689 and the Act of Settlement in 1701

confirmed that Parliament was the supreme legislature above the monarch and established the
principle of parliamentary sovereignty, which embodies the fundamental principles of the
constitution, namely the rule of law and parliamentary sovereignty.
Parliament has legislative power. The supremacy of parliament refers to the legislative power of
parliament. Parliament has the power to make and repeal any law below the [Link]
parliament delegates the executive power to the government, the judicial power to the courts,
and directly exercises the legislative power itself. The parliament is a combination of three
powers, higher than the government and the courts. It asserts its supreme position by holding
legislative power, and at the same time uses legislation to achieve restraint on the government
and the courts.

The British Parliament has four major functions legislation, debating, scrutiny and spending and
taxation [Link] billing process goes through the House of Commons and the House of
[Link] once the houses both have agreed, the bill gets passed to the Crown to receive royal
assent. It will become law after the crown signs it .The scrutiny is to make sure the executive
branch of the government adheres to the constitution and doesn't abuse the [Link] and
Lords can get the opportunity to question government ministers during the question
[Link] from each government department attend the Commons on a rota basis to
answer oral questions. Debating is to discuss government policy, and current issues which allows
MPs and Lords to deliver their [Link] and taxation oversight is for parliament to
review,debate and approve government spending [Link] amount of public money that can be
spent by each government department must be approved annually by the House of Commons. In
addition, there are special Committees that monitor how each department is spending money
throughout the year.

The monarch is the head of [Link] King reigns, but does not [Link] monarch is
constitutionally obliged to follow the government’s advice. The main functions are to appoint the
Prime Minister; to open new sessions of parliament; and to give royal assent to bills passed by
parliament and to receive ambassadors etc serving as a symbolic role.
The Prime Minister is the head of government and holds executive powers. The PM is the leader
of the majority party in the House of Commons appointed by the monarch. The PM is responsible
for leading the cabinet deciding the government policy and chairing the government meetings
etc.

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