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A thought provoking post from The Anglo Saxon Chronicle subject “The British Monarchy within a Federal Europe”

There seems to be a general misunderstanding about the British system and an inclination from Pro EU pundits to either dismiss or just ignore the questions that need to be addressed as more of the power of self- government is lost to the EU. The whole British EU argument rests solely on one thing and that is have we only loaned the sovereignty to the EU which is always within the power of the British Parliament to return to itself with no external interference in that process, or have we transferred the sovereignty.

This difference between power delegated and power transferred is akin to, but should not be confused with, another difference: that between sovereignty de jure so called, and sovereignty de facto so called. The delegate is entitled by treaty to exercise sovereign power de facto; but it does not belong to him: he does not possess it de jure. But the language of this distinction is misleading.

The delegate’s exercise of sovereign power is perfectly lawful. He has not usurped it. The owner of sovereignty has chosen to delegate it, and it may be assumed that all proper formal legal requirements to that end have been observed. To this extent the delegate’s power is certainly de jure; that is, it is
in accordance with law. It is given by lawful process, not taken by revolution or other superior force. The real distinction here is not between de jure and de facto sovereignty. It is between sovereignty delegated and sovereignty transferred. Lord Justice Laws
The United Kingdom as a Sovereign State

2 ~ The basis of the British system of government is a closed loop:

the People are sovereign;
their sovereignty is represented by the Monarch whom they, the People, choose;
the Monarch, as head of the Government, oversees the work of the Government;
the Government governs the People. (The Government thus governs the People with the consent of the People.)
The Monarch, as head of the Government, is responsible for the effective coordination of a triad: the legislature; the judiciary; the executive. The Monarch calls and dissolves Parliament, appoints and dismisses prime ministers - and in these four actions retains the freedom of choice necessary to protect the people the Monarch represents.

Legislation is thus the power of the Sovereign in Parliament.
The Monarch appoints the judges: and thus justice is the power of the Sovereign on the Bench.
All executive orders, whether civil or military, are given on behalf of the Monarch: thus executive power is the power delegated by the Sovereign in Council.

The Monarch’s office is authorised by the Act of Settlement 1701, which gave the descent of the Crown to the Protestant heirs general of Sophia, and the Monarch succeeds to the Crown at the moment the predecessor dies. However, the ratification of that succession which the Monarch’s subsequent coronation signifies is not owed to the Act: it is the gift of the people the Monarch is to represent until death. At the coronation, the Sovereign is acclaimed as the choice of Parliament acting for the People, and the coronation oath, whose continuous history can be traced to the time of the Confessor, and whose development embraces the Magna Carta, confirms that the Sovereign’s authority is itself subject to the Law (and thus all authority delegated from the Sovereign is subject to the Law).

Without the Monarch, Parliament cannot legislate, for although the Royal Assent is given by the three Lords Commissioners for the Monarch, that Assent has first to be authorised by the Monarch. While it is true that the full authority of the Monarch as Sovereign may be attained only with the Three Estates of the Realm assembled in full Parliament, the Monarch will always retain the Royal Prerogatives: to dismiss the prime minister; and to dissolve the Parliament. We have a balance; we have a closed loop; we have a sovereign people. That is the situation today.

The post then goes on to explore some of the difficulties of the United Kingdom attempting to enter a United States of Europe.