In theory, Mr. Marks had the authority to select options other than the hard line that was chosen.
But he said that the election of an openly gay bishop was not surprising for the church in the United States and that each diocese had the authority to select its own bishop.
A committee heard testimony from lawyers that the Legislature had the authority to select electors if the state's Electoral College votes are in jeopardy.
The White House, however, argued it had the authority to select an acting director for the consumer watchdog agency.
Rubin, who had the authority to select the coin's design as Secretary of the Treasury, specified that the coin should depict a representation of one or more women and could not depict a living person.
On 24 June 2011, it was reported that Miliband was seeking to change the decades-old rule that Labour's Shadow Cabinet would be elected every two years, instead wanting to adopt a system where he alone had the authority to select its members.
It has never in our Nation's history resulted in the remarkable scenario in which an agency is allowed to claim that two different laws have been simultaneously enacted and that the agency has the authority to choose between them, selecting the law that might "arguably" sustain its proposed exercise of power, and tossing out the law that would not.
The first is manipulation by a chairman or outside party that has the authority to set the agenda or select the voting method that will be used.
While the Constitution says the state Legislature has the authority to determine how electors are selected, the Florida Legislature, like the legislature in every state, has passed a law that says the state shall certify the winner of the most votes in a presidential election.
Using a liquid democracy platform, however, that voter can select a personal representative who has the authority to be a proxy for their vote.
When there is no central authority, who has the authority to sell t-shirts?
