Sentence examples for consent power from inspiring English sources

Historically, the Senate exercised its "advice and consent" power much more responsibly.

The Constitution also gives the U.S. Senate the advice and consent power over that nominee.

As part of the "advise and consent" power, the Senate could require that nominees be selected on a rotating basis from each of the twelve federal judicial circuits.

Using the Senate's "advice and consent" power to try to maintain some sort of ideological balance would quickly move us into the realm of the ridiculous--turning 100 senators into latter-day diviners.

Hamilton expressed his understanding, shared by fellow Framers, that the Senate's "advice and consent" power, contained in the document's Article II, Section 2, was meant to provide a check on unfit or unqualified presidential appointees.

The Appointments Clause of the Constitution, Article II, Section 2, Clause 2, states that "principal officers of the United States" must be nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate under its "Advice and Consent" powers.

To me, it is crystal clear that the change in the Democrats' behavior, the use of the filibuster the way they have, is an affront to the advise-and-consent power of our Constitution".

Eliot pounces: "This is clearly abuse of the advise-and-consent power.

Germany's argument is that Nord Stream 2 is just a commercial undertaking between two consenting powers, but Germany's support of Nord Stream 2 has been a political disaster that has isolated Germany from the rest of Europe.

Ure agrees, saying that not only is each Senator now free to ignore his state's interests, Senators "have incentive to use their advice-and-consent powers to install Supreme Court justices who are inclined to increase federal power at the expense of state sovereignty".

In 1922, Walter Lippmann, in his book "Public Opinion," warned of "the manufacture of consent," a power that media gatekeepers could use for good or for ill.