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#prerogative

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Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority.


Charles Hodge


#call #calls #christ #church #duties

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.


Coco Chanel


#already #elegance #escaped #future #just

The first is the law, the last prerogative.


John Dryden


#last #law #prerogative

Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.


Ron Fournier


#andrew #claim #claimed #congress #constitutional

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.


Mahatma Gandhi


#coward #exhibiting #incapable #love #prerogative

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.


John Buchanan Robinson


#army #crime #criminal #disloyalty #felt

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.


Corliss Lamont


#choice #decisions #ethical #firmly #freedom

And therefore, for the sake of my mater, without any regard for my own, I hope all those that have a due regard for our constitution and for the rights and prerogatives of the crown, without which our constitution can not be preserved, will be against this motion.


Robert Walpole


#any #constitution #crown #due #hope

The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we worship God.


Roy Moore


#duties #felt #forefathers #god #government

But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown.


Robert Walpole


#against #alleging #any #crime #crown






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