What exactly IS a parliamentary monarchy?
Parliamentary monarchy is a constitutional monarchy or limited monarchy is a form of government established under a constitutional system which acknowledges an elected or hereditary monarch as head of state, as opposed to an absolute monarchy, where the monarch is not bound by a constitution and is the sole source of political power. Most constitutional monarchies take on a parliamentary form, like the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan and Malaysia where the monarch may be regarded as the head of state but the prime minister, whose power derives directly or indirectly from elections, is head of government. A monarch’s power is exercised upon the advice of the prime minister. Under a parliamentary monarchy, the monarch does however possess certain reserve powers, which they may exercise at they own discretion granted by the Parliament. Every monarch are granted with a set of their own reserved powers known as the “Royal Prerogative.” These powers could be exercised in an emergency such as a
