The French Parliamentary Order

Any law promulgated by the king had to be registered in the parliament to take effect. The magistrates took this act of registration seriously and did not believe it was their job to provide a mere rubber stamp for the king. They were allowed to send back to the king a remonstrance, tallying up the things they didn't like, and then delay registration until the king either stripped out offending clauses or provided satisfactory reasons for keeping them in. This gave the parliament collectively a sense that they were the defenders of political liberty in france.