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7807. SENATE (United States), Executive and.—

The President desired my opinion
whether the Senate has a right to negative
the grade he may think it expedient to use
in a foreign mission as well as the person to be appointed. I think the Senate has no
right to negative the grade.
Opinion on the Powers of the Senate. Washington ed. vii, 465. Ford ed., v, 161.
(1790)