Siegfried called that wording "precatory" -- a suggestion -- and not mandatory, leaving open the possibility that the money could go out after the specified date. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Barnett thinks Congress may make precatory resolutions: ❋ Unknown (2010)
The view that the Confrontation Clause and the Right to Trial by Jury are merely precatory, to be ignored whenever a prosecutor wants to admit an “Expert” report, or when a factual issue can plausibly be characterized as merely a sentencing factor? ❋ Unknown (2009)
Because the Constitution gives the President the discretion to recommend only “such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient” Article II, section 3 of the Constitution, the specified officers and I shall treat these directions as precatory. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Finally, the militia clause is what is referred to by lawyers as "precatory language." ❋ Unknown (2007)
Note that if legislators were somehow! required to read all bills passed into law, they would just withdraw into precatory vagaries, and leave all the detail to bureaucrats. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Carter objected that Congress "cannot mandate the establishment of consular relations at a time and place unacceptable to the President," and accordingly stated his determination to construe the provision as merely precatory. ❋ Unknown (2006)
You see, unlike advisory resolutions, or precatory proposals on the shareholder ballot, this resolution will enact a bylaw (a law of the corporation) and codify "sustainability." ❋ Unknown (2008)
Whether the 2d Amend's introductory phrase is precatory or limiting, the amendment says that "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)
If some of the criticisms of the ISG report are right, as one thinks, especially because so much of the report seems precatory, seems based on hope rather than reality, then a bipartisan push behind the Baker report would likely be only another step on the road to an even bigger disaster. ❋ Unknown (2006)
At best, the existence of a statutory supermajoritarian escalator might have some persuasive but nonbinding effects on Congress; but if the pressures to act after a second or third catastrophic attack are as strong as Ackerman warns they will be, such precatory effects will not be nearly enough. ❋ Cole, David (2006)
From alleyways the benisons of beggars came, from lanes they waved their precatory hands. ❋ Jamie O’Neill (2002)
Because the work of the Commission may interfere with the constitutional authority vested in the President to conduct foreign affairs, the restrictions in section 405 (b) are constitutionally problematic and I therefore construe these restrictions to be precatory only. ❋ Clinton, Bill, 1946- (2000)
To the extent that those provisions would require Administration officials to provide Congress with policy recommendations or draft legislation, I direct these officials to treat any such requirements as precatory. ❋ Clinton, Bill, 1946- (2000)
Therefore, this provision will be treated as precatory. ❋ Clinton, Bill, 1946- (1999)
This provision unjustifiably intrudes upon the President's constitutional authority and discretion to appoint executive officials, and, therefore, I will treat this provision as precatory. ❋ Clinton, Bill, 1946- (1999)
I shall treat the language of this provision as precatory and construe the provision in light of my constitutional responsibilities to conduct foreign affairs, including, where appropriate, the protection of diplomatic communications. ❋ Clinton, Bill, 1946- (1998)
Although I support the policies underlying this provision, it can be read to interfere with my discretion over matters of foreign policy, and I will therefore construe the provision as precatory. ❋ Clinton, Bill, 1946- (1998)
