ABSTRACT
The Crown enjoys the authority of the royal prerogative which consists of special dignities, powers and privileges under the authority of the common law. This power places the Crown above all other citizens and it includes the authority to enforce the Queen’s peace throughout her realm. The royal prerogative gives powers to the Crown to enforce the peace with powers that originated in the mists of antiquity. The modern idea of individual rights laid down in law started with the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. King Edward was the most powerful of all of the medieval kings, and probably the greatest of them, having gained his power by force of arms. He used his prerogative power and claimed that he would enforce the King’s peace throughout England at all times, to authorise his action he used prerogative powers to enact several major statutes, two of which had a direct bearing on the maintenance of the peace.
