Assertion: prerogative's right | /r/CapableOf | refuse assent
Facets:
value: to bills
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: This does not mean that the right to refuse, even contrary to the wishes of the Prime Minister, has died: the threat of the Royal Veto by George III and George IV made Catholic Emancipation impossible between 1800 and 1829, whilst George V had been privately advised (by his own lawyer, not by the Prime Minister) that he could veto the Third Irish Home Rule Bill; Jennings writes that "it was assumed by the King throughout that he had not only the legal power but the constitutional right to refuse assent".
text: In legal theory the Queen has the right to refuse her assent to Bills, but by convention, assent is always given.
text: The right to refuse assent has not been exercised since the reign of Queen Anne in1704.