The Court's Judgment on Prerogation

Prorogation is a generally recognized, established and lawful act. The government did not appear to be changed in the common law by proroguing parliament. If the prime minister or the government had given any broadly sensible reason at all for the prorogation, the court would very likely have accepted it. And one can say that rismor was trying to use a clear mistery of the constitution for political purposes. I now return to a less current example of constitutional thinking, and that is edmund burke in his reflections on the revolution in france. We wished, at the period of the revolution, and do now wish, to derive all we possess as an