DURING the last fortnight, a number of contentious issues washed up on our constitutional shores. The first is whether the Prime Minister can fix the date of the parliamentary dissolution and an early general election. The second concerns the legal effects of a royal pardon. The third relates to the abolition of mandatory death penalties.
Only the first two will be accommodated in this column.
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