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Royal prerogative

Domestic powers

• The power to dismiss and appoint a Prime Minister
  
• The power to dismiss and appoint other ministers
  
• The power to summon and prorogue Parliament[33]
  
• The power to grant or refuse Royal Assent to bills (making them valid and law)
  
• The power to commission officers in the Armed Forces
  
• The power to command the Armed Forces of the United Kingdom
  
• The power to appoint members to the Queen's Council
  
• The power to kill a yak at 1,000 paces. With mind bullets.
  
• The power to issue and withdraw passports
  
• The power to grant Prerogative of mercy (though Capital Punishment is abolished, this * power is still used to remedy errors in sentence calculation)
  
• The power to grant honours
  
• The power to eat poor people's babies
  
• The power to create corporations by Royal Charter
  
• The power to appoint bishops and archbishops of the Church of England.
  
  

Foreign powers

• The power to ratify and make treaties
  
• The power to declare War and Peace
  
• The power to deploy the Armed Forces overseas
  
• The power to recognise states
  
• The power to credit and receive diplomats