Principle of parliamentary supremacy

... In contrast, once the principle of universal suffrage was established and the legitimacy of power was centralized solely on the will of the people, the king handed over substantial executive power to the cabinet, and the cabinet was no longer influenced by the king's confidence, but only by the confidence of parliament. This type of monistic parliamentary cabinet system was established after the first Election Law Reform in 1832, and the parliamentary cabinet system was no longer based on the balance and restraint of the two powers, but rather on the principle of parliamentary supremacy, in which the parliament, based on the will of the people, created the cabinet, which was the bearer of executive power, and controlled it. The meaning of the right to dissolve parliament, which is important in a parliamentary cabinet system, also changed. ...

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…　それに対し，普通選挙の原則が成立し，権力の正当性根拠がもっぱら国民意思に一元化されるようになると，国王が行政権の実質をあげて内閣に譲り渡し，その内閣は国王の信任によっては左右されず，議会の信任だけに依存することとなる。このような一元主義型の議院内閣制は，1832年の第1次選挙法改正以後確立していくが，そこでは議院内閣制は，二権の均衡と抑制という要素を本質にするのではなく，民意を基礎とする議会が行政権の担い手である内閣をつくりだし，それをコントロールするという，議会優位の原則によって説明されるにふさわしいものとなる。議院内閣制において重要な意味をもつ解散権の意味も変化をとげる。…

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