Little attention has recently been given to sovereignty, and yet is is a matter of the greatest political consequence to the people of Northern Ireland, the Falklands and Gibraltar. The development of the E.E.C. has important implications for the nations of Europe. The interventi on of the Queen in the recent Fiji coup and the dismissal of the Australian prime Minister in 1975 are examples of sovereignty at work. Were there to be a hung parliament in the United Kingdom, the Queen would have to exercise the powers vested in her as sovereign of the realm to choose a Prime Minister who could command a majority in the House of Commons.
