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Definition of Appointing
1. appoint [v] - See also: appoint
Lexicographical Neighbors of Appointing
Literary usage of Appointing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Evolution of the Constitution of the United States: Showing that it is a by Sydney George Fisher (1897)
"appointing power divided among the president, council, and assembly. ...
appointing power given to the governor and council, except in a few officers. ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"(b) appointing power.—From the same principle also arises the prerogative of
erecting and disposing of offices: for honors and offices are in their nature ..."
3. The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625-1660 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Great Britain Parliament (1906)
"THE ORDINANCE appointing THE SECOND COMMITTEE OF BOTH KINGDOMS. [May 22, 1644.
Journals of the House of Commons, iii. 504. See Great Ciril War, i. 343. ..."
4. The Works of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster (1890)
"THE appointing AND REMOVING POWER/ MR. PRESIDENT, — The professed object of this
bill is the reduction of executive influence and patronage. ..."
5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"... the arbitrators must be chosen from the above mentioned list, each party
appointing two arbitrators who together choose an umpire. ..."
6. The Life and Speeches of the Hon. Henry Clay by Henry Clay (1844)
"ON THE appointing AND REMOVING POWER, IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, FEBRUARY
18,1838. [In the course of a discussion on a bill relating to the power ..."
7. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1828)
"... difficulties of appointing .a publicly known—as it was during successor, which
are never sn*bl the adjournment that the new where so splendid an ..."
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