The Constitution, having declared that the President shall nominate and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls [* * *] has taken care to circumscribe this [power] within very strict limits: for it gives the nomination of the foreign agents to the President, the appointments to him and the Senate jointly, and the commissioning to the President. This analysis calls our attention to the strict import of each term. To nominate must be to propose. Appointment seems that act of the will which constitutes or makes the agent, and the commission is the public evidence of it. —

TITLE: Opinion on Powers of Senate.
EDITION: Washington ed. vii, 465.
EDITION: Ford ed., v, 161.
PLACE: [none given]
DATE: 1790