Submitted on Wednesday 29th June 2016
Rejected on Sunday 3rd July 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Only Parliament can mandate the invocation of Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty
UK constitutional law dictates that only Parliament can mandate an invocation of Article 50 fo the Lisbon Treaty because invocation of Article 50 would amend and overrule existing acts of Parliament which cannot be done by exercise of the Royal Prerogative.
The attached article by respected consititutional law experts sets out the legal basis for this petition:
https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/2016/06/27/nick-barber-tom-hickman-and-jeff-king-pulling-the-article-50-trigger-parliaments-indispensable-role/
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/133540
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