Svinhufvud's Senate also authorized General Mannerheim to form a new Finnish army on the basis on White Guard, the ( chiefly Rightist ) volunteer militia called the Suojeluskunta, an act simultaneously coinciding with the beginning of the Civil War in Finland.

Svinhufvud's " White Senate " had nothing but the White Guards to rely on as yet.

Three weeks after the declaration of independence, Svinhufvud's cabinet concluded, under pressure from Germany, that it would have to negotiate with Lenin for Russian recognition.

Svinhufvud's parliamentary opening speeches, in which he laid emphasis on legality, led to the Tsar dissolving Parliament in both 1909 and 1910.

Svinhufvud's career in law followed a regular course: he worked as a lawyer, served at district courts, and served as a deputy judge at the Turku Court of Appeal.

In Svinhufvud's opinion, the Finnish President had enough power to lead the country, provided that the President had a strong personality.

Parliamentarism was ( re -) introduced by Svinhufvud's successor Kyösti Kallio in 1937.

The president makes a treaty with foreign powers, but then the proposed treaty must be ratified by a two-thirds vote in the Senate.

For example, President Wilson proposed the Treaty of Versailles after World War I after consulting with allied powers, but this treaty was rejected by the U. S. Senate ; as a result, the U. S. subsequently made separate agreements with different nations.

Legislation had been proposed in both the House and the Senate in Delaware to designate English as the official language.

The next day, Congressman Boudinot proposed that the House and Senate jointly request of President Washington to proclaim a day of thanksgiving for “ the many signal favors of Almighty God .” Boudinot said that he

Despite that a proposed bill in American Senate would allow the reserve to continue to sell the gas.

He appointed a commission that set aside 3, 000, 000 acres ( 12, 000 km² ) of national parks and 2, 300, 000 acres of national forests ; advocated tax reduction for low-income Americans ( not enacted ); closed certain tax loopholes for the wealthy ; doubled the number of veterans ' hospital facilities ; negotiated a treaty on St. Lawrence Seaway ( which failed in the U. S. Senate ); wrote a Children's Charter that advocated protection of every child regardless of race or gender ; created an antitrust division in the Justice Department ; required air mail carriers to adopt stricter safety measures and improve service ; proposed federal loans for urban slum clearances ( not enacted ); organized the Federal Bureau of Prisons ; reorganized the Bureau of Indian Affairs ; instituted prison reform ; proposed a federal Department of Education ( not enacted ); advocated $ 50-per-month pensions for Americans over 65 ( not enacted ); chaired White House conferences on child health, protection, homebuilding and home-ownership ; began construction of the Boulder Dam ( later renamed Hoover Dam ); and signed the Norris – La Guardia Act that limited judicial intervention in labor disputes.

Because of the controversial nature of Hoover's legacy, there have been periodic proposals to rename it by legislation proposed by both Republicans and Democrats in the House and Senate.

The president also proposed Carson as a lieutenant in the mounted rifle regiment, but the United States Senate rejected the appointment.

Henceforth, the Senate can only delay a bill from taking effect and the Monarch no longer has veto powers on proposed bills.

Once legislation proposed by the king passed the Comitia Curiata, the Senate could either veto it or accept it as law.

It consists of 12 members, appointed by the King, 4 of which are proposed by the Congress of Deputies by three-fifths of its members, 4 of which are proposed by the Senate by three-fifths of its members as well, 2 proposed by the executive and 2 proposed by the General Council of the Judiciary.

It was officially proposed by the Congress to the states when the Senate passed the resolution, by a vote of 47 to 8, the next day, December 18.

It was then introduced into the Senate as the USA Act ( S. 1510 ) where a number of amendments were proposed by Senator Russ Feingold,

Harding stunned the capital when he sent to the Senate a message supporting the participation of the U. S. in the proposed Permanent Court of International Justice.

In July 1909, a proposed amendment to allow the federal government to tax incomes was passed unanimously in the Senate and by a vote of 318 to 14 in the House.

* In 1990, a United States Senate joint resolution to change the name of Washington Dulles to Washington Eisenhower was proposed by Senator Dole, but never passed.

** The Blaine Act passes the United States Senate, submitting the proposed 21st Amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification.

As Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on International Finance, Monroney proposed a resolution recommending a study of the potential establishment of an International Development Association to be affiliated with the IBRD.

( 5 ) The tribunes of plebs proposed to the People on the authority of the Senate that there should be command rights ( imperium ) for M. Marcellus on the day he should enter the City in ovation.

Numerous party leaders privately told Roosevelt that they would fight Wallace's renomination as VP and proposed Missouri Senator Harry S. Truman, a moderate who had gained favorable publicity as the chairman of a Senate wartime investigating committee, as FDR's new running mate.

Mannerheim's great-grandfather, Count Carl Erik Mannerheim ( 1759 – 1837 ), had held a number of offices in Finland's civil service during the early years of the autonomous Russian Grand Principality of Finland, including membership in the Senate, and served as the first Prime Minister of Finland ( formally the Vice Chairman of the Economic Department of the Senate-the Senate consisted of Economic Department, later the cabinet, and the Justice Dpt, later the Supreme Court, and the formal chairman of both was the Governor General as the acting head of state ).

In January 1918, the Senate of the newly independent Finland, under Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, appointed Mannerheim as Commander-in-Chief of Finland's almost nonexistent army, which was then not much more than some locally set up White Guards.

Svinhufvud was appointed as Chairman of the Senate on November 27, 1917, and was a key figure in the announcement of Finland's declaration of independence on December 6, 1917.

From the date of Finland's independence on 6 December 1917 until the end of the Finnish Civil War in May 1918, Per Evind Svinhufvud was the head of state of White Finland in his capacity as Chairman of the Senate.

He served as Vice-President of the Senate of Finland's Economic Department, and Governor of Turku and Björneborg provinces.

In 1918, after Finland's independence, the Cabinet, that in the Grand Duchy of Finland had been called the Senate of Finland, was reorganized and renamed to the Council of State.

In doing this, the Senate issued a war declaration and deprived Antony of any legal authority.

Under Section 4 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment, the vice president, in conjunction with a majority of the Cabinet, may transfer the presidential powers and duties from the president to the vice president by transmitting a written declaration to the Speaker of the House and the president pro tempore of the Senate that the president is unable to discharge the presidential powers and duties.

He noted that the declaration ( passed 81 – 47 in the Chamber of Deputies ) had not obtained the two-thirds Senate majority constitutionally required to convict the president of abuse of power: essentially, the Congress were invoking the intervention of the armed forces and of Order against a democratically-elected government and subordinat political representation of national sovereignty to the armed institutions, which neither can nor ought to assume either political functions or the representation of the popular will.

In response to Catiline's behavior, the Senate issued a senatus consultum ultimum, a kind of declaration of martial law invoked whenever the Senate and the Roman Republic were in imminent danger from treason or sedition.

Section 3 provides that when the President transmits a written declaration to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, stating that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of the Presidency, and until the President sends another written declaration to the aforementioned officers declaring himself able to resume discharging those powers and duties, the Vice President serves as Acting President.

It allows the Vice President, together with a majority of either " the principal officers of the executive departments " ( i. e., the Cabinet ) or of " such other body as Congress may by law provide ", to declare the President disabled by submitting a written declaration to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Included in the Senate's ratification was the declaration that " the provisions of Article 1 through 27 of the Covenant are not self-executing ", and in a Senate Executive Report stated that the declaration was meant to " clarify that the Covenant will not create a private cause of action in U. S. Courts.

Upon this declaration, which is transmitted in writing to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate, the Vice President becomes acting president.

Upon this the declaration signed by the Vice-President and a majority of the members of the Cabinet, which is transmitted in writing to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate, the Vice President immediately becomes acting president.

" Thus, the Vice President becomes acting president as soon as the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate receive the written declaration issued under either section 3 or section 4 of the 25th Amendment, no oath being required.

* The President transmits " his written declaration " to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate, declaring that his period of incapacity has ended, if the incapacity was declared under section 3 of the 25th Amendment ( self declared incapacity ); or,

* when the President transmits his written declaration to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate declaring that he is able to resume the powers and duties of his office and four days elapse without the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet restating their declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, if the incapacity was declared under section 4 of the 25th Amendment ( action by Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet ).

* His precise following of the provisions of section 3 of the 25th Amendment, issuing written declarations to the President pro tempore of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House, declaring his temporary inability to discharge the office, and subsequent declaration that his disability had been removed.

The Vice President would then become Acting President until the President submits a declaration to the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate that affirms his ability to discharge his duties.

The NPL's William " Wild Bill " Langer was elected to the governorship in 1932 and 1936 ( the two terms separated by his declaration of North Dakota's secession from the United States in 1934, and a jail term ), and served in the U. S. Senate from 1940 until his death in 1959.

The Senate finally convened in 1945 and served as the upper chamber of Congress from thereon until the declaration of martial law by President Ferdinand Marcos in 1972. which shut down Congress.

However, the next day Nye joined the rest of the Senate in voting for a unanimous declaration of war.

The election years slogan's and bad press, Democratic hawks controlling the U. S. legislatures, the failing fur market demand, and finally the declaration of war by Mexico over the annexation of their rebel state of Texas all had an accelerating effect greasing the diplomatic wrangling and finally putting an Administration Sponsored treaty before the Senate which set the current boundary, where it was quickly adopted under the wartime congressional session.

He noted that the declaration had not obtained the two-thirds Senate majority constitutionally required to convict the president of abuse of power: essentially, the Congress were invoking the intervention of the armed forces and of Order against a democratically elected government and subordinat political representation of national sovereignty to the armed institutions, which neither can nor ought to assume either political functions or the representation of the popular will.