He wants the Queen to consider using her prerogative of mercy to ensure justice is served.
"My first bouquet - and it's spoiled," she moans, discomfiting her parents with this precocious sense of her future, adult prerogatives.
They laughed together at any predestinatory prerogative of her mother's, or the alternative paternal one — to be expected to become a doctor!
In MacCormick v. Lord Advocate, the Scottish Court of Session ruled against the plaintiffs, finding that the Queen's title was a matter of her own choice and prerogative.
But every modern production has problems with The Eumenides, not least because Athena forgives Orestes's matricide on the dubious grounds of her belief in the male prerogative; and, even though in Northern Ireland we have seen the revenge cycle give way to power sharing, it is difficult to share Aeschylus's faith in a new world order.
As a teenage queen, she could savour the delicious intrigue of power and the exquisite exercise of prerogative and caprice: extending or withholding her favour in the company of charismatic, important Lords Melbourne and Wellington.
There's something both grotesque and bracing about the confrontation between Clinton, with her disciplined professionalism, and Trump, with his increasingly frenzied assertions of male prerogative.
The High Commission was vastly unpopular amongst both common lawyers and Members of Parliament, as the idea of "prerogative law" challenged both authorities.
The High Commission was vastly unpopular among both common lawyers and Members of Parliament, as the idea of "prerogative law" challenged both authorities.
Locke's understanding of separation of powers is complicated by the doctrine of prerogative.
