Word: consent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dissent was far from a revolt against Johnson and was much milder than some of the Senate's historic uprisings against the White House. It was a challenge nonetheless, and a reassertion of the Senate's constitutional mandate to give "advice and consent" to all treaties and, by projection, to all U.S. foreign policies. Irritating as it may seem in times of crisis, the founding fathers intended that the Senate should act in just this way-as a chamber of deliberate counsel, second thoughts and extended debate, a guardian against rashness on the part either of the popularly...
...first test of will happened only four months after Washington's Inauguration, when he dutifully called upon the Senate to ask its advice and consent to a treaty with Southern Indians. He brought with him his Secretary of War to explain the details. The treaty was read aloud, but because of the noise of passing carriages, some Senators complained that they had not grasped it and, refusing to be hurried, moved to send the bill to a committee for study. "This defeats every purpose of my coming here," said Washington, who, according to an eyewitness, was "in a violent...
...this right-the South Vietnamese people-and no one else. Washington will not impose a government not of their choice. Hanoi shall not impose a government not of their choice. We will insist for ourselves on what we require from Hanoi: respect for the principle of government by the consent of the governed...
...seemed obvious from the U.S. Senate press gallery back in 1959 that those 100-odd characters milling about and orating down below were just searching for some author to package them up in a novel. So Newsman Allen Drury wrote Advise and Consent. Of course there was a sequel-A Shade of Difference-but now the troubles have started for Novelist Drury; he has begun to write about ordinary people. They are the nice upper-middle-class inhabitants of Greenmont, Calif., a summer colony 6,000 feet up in the Sierras. Greenmont is slightly more exclusive than the U.S. Senate...
...problems are endless. What about a doctor who performs the quite feasible trick of arranging A.I.D. during a gynecological examination without a wife's knowledge or consent? Can he be charged with a sex offense? Should a woman whose husband is not sterile be permitted to use A.I.D. because she desires a child of what she hopes is "better stock" than her husband's? Since one donor is capable of fathering 30 children per donation, how can the law prevent incest between siblings sired by the same donor? (A doctor's privileged knowledge once headed off just...