>The Queen can't create legislation, she can restrain it. She is purely a moderating influence in this sense. Assuming the only negative changes that can occur

>The Queen can't create legislation, she can restrain it. She is purely a moderating influence in this sense. Assuming the only negative changes that can occur to a person or group's interests are from the government, this makes sense. In reality, where we have enormous corporations who have the power and ability to negatively affect the lives of citizens in new ways previous legislators could not have envisioned, un-democratic checks against legislative action strongly benefit the powerful.