Word: consented
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...vote took place, were likely to pass overwhelmingly. Critics already were denouncing an invasion ordered without the legislature's approval as unconstitutional, and TIME's poll showed that 67% of the public agreed. Opponents would scream all the louder if the President acted not just without the consent of Congress but after it had declared its official opposition. The White House, however, hopes the Carter mission would soften some congressional wrath by demonstrating that Clinton had made an honest try to avoid shooting...
Both candidates are pro-choice, but Lakian has criticized Romney for supporting the right of states to require parental consent for abortions for teenagers...
...bill contained provisions for an expansion of the death penalty to cover dozens of federal crimes, a Racial Justice Act that would allow defendants to use racial statistics to challenge death sentences as discriminatory, and a ban on the sale or transfer of handguns to juveniles without parental consent. On May 5 the House separately approved a ban on the sale of 19 assault weapons by a vote of 216 to 214. The entire package then went to a conference committee to be reconciled with the Senate's own omnibus crime bill, which passed in November...
...concerns appearances. The independent-counsel law, enacted 15 years ago in the wake of Watergate, was a response to the public's growing distrust of its leaders. The law accepted the assumption that an Administration should not investigate itself. It understood that a government deriving its legitimacy from the consent of the governed must not only act forthrightly but appear to do so. Indeed, the Sentelle panel adopted this exact rationale to ax Fiske, who had been appointed by Clinton's Justice Department. The statute, the judges said, "contemplates an apparent as well as an actual independence on the part...
...ordinarily passed along to the mother. In fact, the testing is generally done on a blind basis; the blood samples are identified by number, and not even the hospital staff knows which babies tested positive. Unless the mother requests HIV screening ahead of time and signals her consent, she won't be told the results of the test. She may go home from the hospital not knowing that aids stalks her and her child...