"I think it is natural that you have people who are important, powerful people on the Hill, committee chairs, who want to exercise their prerogative," said Tad Devine, a longtime Democratic strategist.
ML: There was a couple there who were exercising their prerogative to not move until they found them somewhere they wanted to move to.
While it's understandable that you might be disappointed and hurt because you had hoped to be a godparent, you have to understand that your friend and her husband have every right to exercise their own prerogatives and do what they think is best for themselves and their baby.
The only difference from current practice is that certain states would exercise their absolute prerogative under Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution to "appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors" by appointing electors pledged to the winner of the national vote instead of by appointing electors pledged to the winner of the vote in their state alone.
They had chosen a bad moment to exercise their haughty mandarin prerogative.
Senators have long exercised their constitutional prerogative to derail nominations.
Pat Burrell, the San Francisco Giants' left fielder, and Javier Lopez, a relief pitcher, play cards at a prime spot in the center of the room, exercising their veterans' prerogative.
"I am grateful that the U.S. Senate is exercising their constitutional prerogative to stop this reckless diplomacy by the Obama-Kerry-Clinton foreign policy team," he said in a statement.
In Hungary, on the other hand, no ruler was regarded as being truly legitimate until he was physically crowned with St. Stephen's Crown, while monarchs of Belgium or Albania were not allowed to succeed or exercise any of their prerogatives until swearing a formal constitutional oath before their respective nations' parliaments.
In most kingdoms, a monarch succeeding hereditarily does not have to undergo a coronation to ascend the throne or exercise the prerogatives of their office.
