Legally, every act requires the royal assent, and, indeed, the Houses can transact business only during the pleasure of the Crown, which summons and prorogues them, and can at any moment dissolve the House of Commons.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
"Article 68. Every act by which the President of the Republic dissolves the National Assembly, prorogues it, or impedes the execution of its decrees, is high treason.
"Napoleon the Little"
Victor Hugo
To promise better at the next we bring, prorogues disgrace, commends not any thing.
"Cynthia's Revels"
Ben Jonson