and to give judgment upon it is another indication that the courts have a part to play in defining the limits of Parliament's legislative sovereignty. Lord Hope also argued that Parliament should not be able to pass legislation that "is so absurd or so unacceptable that the populace at large refuses to recognise it as law". Jeffrey Jowell suggests that these comments were influenced by Lord Hope's position as a Law Lord from Scotland, where it is unclear whether Parliamentary sovereignty is recognised following MacCormick v Lord Advocate, in which the doctrine was seen as "a distinctively English principle which has no counterpart in Scottish constitutional law". Baroness Hale similarly suggested that there may be limits to Parliament's legislative competence. The courts will, of course, decline to hold that Parliament has interfered with fundamental rights unless it has made its intentions crystal clear. The courts will treat with particular suspicion (and might even reject) any attempt to subvert the rule of law by removing governmental action affecting the rights of the individual from all judicial scrutiny. Although no judge expressly disapproved the opinions that there were limits to Parliament's legislative capabilities, Mullen suggests that Lord Bingham and Lord Carswell intended to impliedly rebut these suggestions. Lord Bingham affirmed that "the bedrock of the British constitution is ... the supremacy of the Crown in Parliament" while Lord Carswell stated: I do not, and I have no doubt your Lordships do not, have any wish to expand the role of the judiciary at the expense of any other organ of the State or to seek to frustrate the properly expressed wish of Parliament as contained in legislation. The attribution in certain quarters of such a wish to the judiciary is misconceived and appears to be the product of lack of understanding of the judicial function and the sources of law which the courts are bound to apply. Justifying limits to the 1911 Act Alison Young argues that Jackson entrenched section 2(1) of the Parliament Act 1911 by requiring that it only be overturned by adopting a specific manner and form (approval of the bill changing the 1911 Act by the House of Lords). She suggests that Lord Steyn and Baroness Hale would explain this result using a self-embracing view of sovereignty – that Parliament as a whole is sovereign and can therefore bind later parliaments. The passing of the 1911 Act was