<P> Royal Prerogative powers include, but are not limited to, the following: </P> <Ul> <Li> The power to appoint (and also, in theory, dismiss) a prime minister . This power is exercised by the monarch herself . By convention she appoints (and is expected to appoint) the individual most likely to be capable of commanding the confidence of a majority in the House of Commons . </Li> <Li> The power to dismiss and appoint other ministers . This power is exercised by the monarch on the advice of the prime minister . </Li> <Li> The power to assent to and enact laws by giving (Royal) Assent to Bills passed by both Houses of Parliament, which is required in order for a law to (from a passed Bill) make it into the Statute Books (i.e., to become a valid law) as an Act (of Parliament). This is exercised by the monarch, who also theoretically has the power to refuse assent, although no monarch has refused assent to a bill passed by Parliament since Queen Anne in 1708 . </Li> <Li> The power to give and to issue commissions to commissioned officers in the Armed Forces . </Li> <Li> The power to command the Armed Forces of the United Kingdom . This power is exercised by the Defence Council in the Queen's name . </Li> <Li> The power to appoint members to Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council . </Li> <Li> The power to issue (and also to suspend, cancel, recall, impound, withdraw or revoke) British passports and the general power to provide (or deny) British passport facilities to British citizens and British nationals . This is exercised (in the United Kingdom, but not necessarily in the case of the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands or the British Overseas Territories) by the Home Secretary . </Li> <Li> The Royal Prerogative of mercy (although capital punishment has been abolished (thereby removing the need to use this power to issue pardons to commute a death penalty imposed, usually substituted into life imprisonment in lieu), this power is still used under rare circumstances (e.g. to remedy errors in sentencing calculation). </Li> <Li> The power to grant (and also to cancel and annul) honours . </Li> <Li> The power to create corporations (including the status of being a city, with its own corporation) by Royal Charter, and also to amend, replace and revoke existing charters . </Li> </Ul> <Li> The power to appoint (and also, in theory, dismiss) a prime minister . This power is exercised by the monarch herself . By convention she appoints (and is expected to appoint) the individual most likely to be capable of commanding the confidence of a majority in the House of Commons . </Li> <Li> The power to dismiss and appoint other ministers . This power is exercised by the monarch on the advice of the prime minister . </Li>

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