Mr. Sumner insisted that the prerogative belonged to the law-making power, and could be exercised only by Act of Congress.
To hold that Congress had power to prescribe the objects of the war was virtually to declare Congress the supreme commander and treaty-making power.
But neither Marshall's unanswerable argument on the treaty-making power, nor his cleverness in holding up the National House of Representatives as the final arbiter, availed anything.
The Legislature of Virginia actually passed a resolution for an amendment of the National Constitution to make the House of Representatives a part of the treaty-making power.
We declare, that the treaty-making power is exclusively vested in the president and senate, and not in the house.
A warm debate immediately arose, and speedily took the form of a discussion on the nature and extent of the treaty-making power.
That whenever that acquisition is by treaty, the same constituted authorities in whom the treaty-making power is vested have a constitutional right to sanction the acquisition.
The qualification is in the question whether the treaty is confined to the business of the treaty-making power?
And the term is used to distinguish the laws made by the legislature, or law-making power of the state, from the constitution, or political law, adopted by the people in their political capacity.
As the treaty-making power appears to be in its nature neither wholly executive nor wholly legislative, but to partake of the nature of both, a part of the legislature is properly associated with the president.
This is making the chief executive officer a third branch of the law-making power; and is not in accordance with the principle of keeping the several departments of the civil power separate and distinct from each other.
Is the law-making power competent to abolish slavery when not restricted in that particular by constitutional provisions--or, Is the abolition of slavery within the appropriate sphere of legislation?
The history of legislation since the revival of letters, is a record crowded with testimony to the universally admitted competency of the law-making power to abolish slavery.
The committee determined that the President and the Senate are, under the Constitution, the treaty-making power.
There is under our Constitution no other source of treaty-making power.
It was impossible for me to proceed further than this on my own authority without usurping the war-making power, which under the Constitution belongs exclusively to Congress.
I have never doubted the constitutional competency of Congress to provide for its construction, but this exclusively under the war-making power.
They are emptying those men upon our shores, and within a few months they are intrusted with the ballot, the law-making power in this republic, and they and their representatives are seated in official and legislative positions.
I ask simply for the opportunity to be afforded the representatives of the political rights of women to be heard in making respectful argument to the law-making power of the nation.
The suffrage is this great primary law-making power.
The statesmen who framed the Constitution were sufficiently statesmen to know that what we call the veto power is not really a veto power; and that the President, unlike the Crown, is not a part of the law-making power.
A more notable instance relates to the appointing and treaty-making power of the Senate.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "making power" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
