Royal prerogative
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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The doctrine of the King's inherent governing authority, invoked to justify taxation and governance without Parliamentary consent.
John’s speech, it must not be forgotten that he was precluded by his position as an advocate from adducing any considerations drawn from his suspicions of Charles’s motives in levying Ship-money by prerogative rather than by Parliamentary authority.
The Laudian clergy being in a minority exalted the Royal prerogative Edition:
so never King more jealous of his honor, nor more sensible of the neglect and contempt of his royal rights, which His Majesty will by no means suffer to be violated by any pretended colour of parliamentary liberty;
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
The claimed discretionary power of the crown, said by Coke to be entirely subordinated to Magna Carta.
Coke also says, “All pretence of prerogative against Magna Charta is taken away.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The Crown's inherent powers and rights, whose restraint or protection is a recurring consideration in shaping each reissue.
” The objection to providing a seal of Henry’s own was that it might be used to prejudice the royal prerogatives by alienating Crown lands and franchises during the King’s minority.
Restraints now placed on the Crown’s prerogatives would only hamper the free action of the men who framed them, not of their political opponents.