The monarch did not have the right to grant pardons.

Article 17 The President of the Republic has the right to grant pardon.

Similar to the United States, the right to grant pardon in Germany is divided between the federal and the state level.

"The President has confused his constitutional right to grant pardons with the legitimacy the people bestow with their vote," he added.

This nation's founders gave U.S. presidents the right to grant pardons in the interest of justice and mercy.

The emperor also retained authority over the minting of money, as well as the right to grant pardons and quash judicial proceedings.

Several defense lawyers expressed doubt that a pardon-for-payment theory could ever be substantiated, considering that as president, Mr. Clinton had the unlimited right to grant pardons.

In addition to requesting the continuation of some traditional royal prerogatives, such as the right to grant pardons, he was anxious to mitigate somehow the undemocratic nature of the new regime.

People want to know the truth, people must know the truth, and people have the right to know the truth, as people have the right to grant pardon to abusive public officials.

While Luther did not deny the Pope's right to grant pardons for penance imposed by the Church, he made it clear that preachers who claimed indulgences absolved buyers from all punishments and granted them salvation were in error.

The Ninety-Five Theses not only denounced such transactions as worldly but denied the Pope's right to grant pardons on God's behalf in the first place: the only thing indulgences guaranteed, Luther said, was an increase in profit and greed, because the pardon of the Church was in God's power alone.