14 June 1645 Charles’s Royalist forces suffer a humiliating defeat by the New Model Army at the Battle of Naseby. 15Nevertheless, the Supreme Court’s ruling reads less as a wholesale endorsement of the principle of Parliamentary sovereignty than as a careful appraisal of the specific status of European law and domestic statutes derived therefrom, and of the role of the British Parliament regarding the sources of law of the United Kingdom. • To know how soldiers fought in the Civil War and what they looked like. The core of the decision acknowledges that the government cannot unilaterally trigger a policy amounting to a large-scale modification of statute law, especially concerning individual rights initially granted by primary legislation. Before the 2015 General Election, Cameron pledged to hold a referendum on the UK’s membership in the Union if his party won the majority, and the referendum was duly included in the Queen’s Speech soon after the Tories’ victory in May 2015.