303.
[31] April 14, 1893, _ibid_.pp.439, 440.
[32] Feb.

14, 1893, _ibid_.pp.340, 341, 343.
[33] Bill, clause 12, sub-clause (3).
[34] This is the only sense in which the sovereignty of the Imperial Parliament is inalienable.

This should be noted, because a strange and absurd dogma is sometimes propounded that a sovereign power such as the Parliament of the United Kingdom, can never by its own act divest itself of sovereignty, and it is thence inferred or hinted that there is no need for the Imperial Parliament to take measures for the preservation of its supremacy.

The dogma is both logically and historically untenable.

A sovereign of any kind can abdicate.