The leaders of the ruling coalition partners recently met at the Presidency to discuss the possibility of any adverse verdict of the Supreme Court in the various petitions being heard on the issue of the disqualification of the convicted prime minister. The handout released after the meeting stated that the coalition partners had “reiterated (their) resolve to uphold the supremacy of parliament, as envisaged in the constitution”. The handout, however, did not refer or specify under what provisions of the constitution they considered parliament to be supreme. The constitution is the fundamental law of the land and has superiority over all other institutions of the state, be it parliament, executive or judiciary. None of the institutions can go beyond the powers vested in them by the constitution. A constitution, being a basic law, cannot, therefore, be governed by any other law, order or authority. Parliament is, no doubt, sovereign, for its legislative competence is unlimited and possibly illimitable. Quite contrary to the legislative power of parliament, the judiciary does not make laws but only interpret them.