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"Within a democracy, an elected assembly that represents the people is generally regarded as having authority to make laws that apply to the entire population. But there is no universal agreement that, when such an assembly acts as a legislature, it should have an absolute and unlimited power to make laws of whatever kind and subject matter". (Page 51, Bradley, A. D. and Ewing, K.D. (2007), Constitutional and Administrative Law, 14th Edition, Longman)

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A fundamental feature of most modern democracy's is an elected chamber that is responsible for designing the laws that the entire population should abide by. The focus of this essay is to establish the extent to which these chambers can pass laws on any subject matter, whether there is an unlimited power to pass laws or whether there are any limits on the legislative authority of the chambers. It must be presumed that these powers will alter from state to state......

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