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    "content": "Hon. Members, neither can the Judiciary compel any action to be undertaken by Parliament. The principal ensures that Parliament, as the representatives of the people, is not prevented from giving voice to the will of the people. An attack on this principal is an attack on the sovereignty of the people. In my estimation, it is a grave attack on the Constitution. Hon. Members, no one outside Parliament, not the Executive and not the Judiciary, tells Parliament in a compulsive manner what to do or not to do, when to do it and how to do it. Hon. Members, this is not new jurisprudence. Our courts are themselves aware of the respective spheres of operation of Parliament and the Judiciary as evidenced by a number of decisions of the superior courts of this country, which I have had the opportunity to read. The courts have recognized that next only to the privilege and immunity of free speech within the House, the most important privilege of the House is the right of the House to regulate its own procedure, free from intervention by the Executive or the courts. The courts recognize that this privilege of the House can visit no harm on their authority or on the administration of justice, because the courts retain the residual"
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