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Royal Prerogative: Difference between revisions
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==Ministerial exercise of the monarch's prerogatives== | ==Ministerial exercise of the monarch's prerogatives== | ||
Today, some prerogative powers are directly exercised by ministers without the approval of Parliament, including, in the United Kingdom, the powers to regulate the civil service, issue passports and grant honours.<ref>[http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/public_administration_select_committee/pasc_19.cfm UK Parliament - PASC 19<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Some prerogative powers are exercised nominally by the monarch, but on the advice of the [[:en:Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]], with whom the monarch meets on a weekly basis, and on the advice of [[:en:Cabinet of the United Kingdom]]. Some key areas of the British system of government are still carried out by means of the Royal Prerogative, but its usage has been diminishing as functions are progressively made statutory. | Today, some prerogative powers are directly exercised by ministers without the approval of Parliament, including, in the United Kingdom, the powers to regulate the civil service, issue passports and grant honours.<ref>[http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/public_administration_select_committee/pasc_19.cfm UK Parliament - PASC 19<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Some prerogative powers are exercised nominally by the monarch, but on the advice of the [[:en:Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]], with whom the monarch meets on a weekly basis, and on the advice of [[:en:Cabinet of the United Kingdom|Cabinet of the United Kingdom]]. Some key areas of the British system of government are still carried out by means of the Royal Prerogative, but its usage has been diminishing as functions are progressively made statutory. | ||
Contrary to widespread belief, the Royal Prerogative is not constitutionally unlimited. While the sovereign has the right to promulgate (i.e., create and proclaim) new law(s), it is a form of reserve power not constitutionally used. (Her Majesty, as Head of State of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, has the right to use the Royal Prerogative over any nation where she is Head of State.) | Contrary to widespread belief, the Royal Prerogative is not constitutionally unlimited. While the sovereign has the right to promulgate (i.e., create and proclaim) new law(s), it is a form of reserve power not constitutionally used. (Her Majesty, as Head of State of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, has the right to use the Royal Prerogative over any nation where she is Head of State.) | ||
