...superstition and history. But, as for powers available to the monarch, 'to state the matter shortly', he said, 'the sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy...of great sense and sagacity would want no others.' 20 Consultation, encouragement and warning have become accepted as the only three legitimate political...

...and powers. As a source of influence on government she has, as Bagehot remarked (above, at p 111), 'three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn'. Occasions for the exercise of these rights still exist, for instance in the Prime Minister's weekly...

...function, at least in Walter Bagehot's famous 1867 statement of a constitutional monarch's legal powers: 'the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn' (111)" (117). 21. See Harris for an in-depth analysis of the real-life connections between women's...

...acts as a disguise: it enables our real rulers to change without people knowing it . . .' There was the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.4 Into this frame we can so easily slip other pictures of ineffectual foppery and all-too-effective...

...Bagehot, an early editor of the Economist, once described the constitutional authority of the monarch as "the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn."- In this context, we add the right to elect, to set compensation, and to dismiss. Although electing,...