Type of executive power of a sovereign due to their exclusive rights and privileges

The prerogative of primogeniture: shewing, that the right of succession to an hereditary crown, depends not upon grace, religion, etc., but onely upon birth-right and primogeniture. And that the chief cause of all, or most, rebellions in Christendom, is a fanatical belief, that, temporal dominion is founded in grace / By David Jenner.

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Prerogative, Royal

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