NOUN
- a legal expression in the United States Constitution that allows the Senate to constrain the President's powers of appointment and treaty-making
How To Use advice and consent In A Sentence
- Faculty members complained that he behaved autocratically in establishing the center without soliciting their advice and consent.
- The crisis of 1629-60 originated in Charles I's belief that by the royal prerogative he could govern without the advice and consent of Parliament.
- With the advice and consent of the robot brain itself, the positronicomputer had been reprogrammed by Rhodan so that such undesirous actions as had happened in the past would never be repeated. The Venus Trap
- Article II, Section 2, of the U.S. Constitution says the president “shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint high government officials.”
- The Commission consists of five Commissioners appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to serve staggered five-year terms.
- He or she could grant pardons and reprieves, and, with the advice and consent of the Senate, make appointments and enter into treaties, subject to the approval of two-thirds of the senators present.
- The term ‘borking’ has come to mean unfair opposition to a judicial nominee, but what is borking and what is legitimate ‘advice and consent,’ as called for under the Constitution, remains unclear.
- A commission of five persons, to be known as the Provincetown Tercentenary Commission, shall be ap - pointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, for the purpose of establishing at Provincetown and in the neighboring towns permanent memorials to com - memorate the three hundredth anni\ersary of the signing of the compact in the cabin of the Mayflower and the first landing of the Pilgrims on American soil. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
- Article II, Section 2, of the U.S. Constitution says the president “shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint high government officials.”