ABSTRACT
Hugo Young Guardian (3 July 1990) The time has come to introduce Professor Dicey to Mr Guy. Professor Dicey, as we have seen, had no difficulty in explaining that the potential for tyranny implied by the legal sovereignty of Parliament was nullified by the political sovereignty of the electorate, buttressed by a political culture in which everybody played by the rules. It has been well said that ‘at the heart of Dicey’s faith in parliamentary sovereignty was his belief that English gentlemen would only pass morally acceptable laws’.1 Or behave, at least politically, in morally acceptable ways.
