prerogative

• It is a huge mistake to assume that jealousy is woman's prerogative, her particular characteristic, or even that it is stronger in her than in man. —  Woman Her Sex and Love Life
• If this prerogative were taken from the Church, all outside the simple domain of faith would fall into a mere chaos. —  Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886
• I swallowed hard; that was a Basin prerogative, and by exerting it a direct Basin inspiration seemed to come to me Feel above you! —  Vesty of the Basins
• But it has been said on the Norwegian side--and this has been brought forward as the main point--Norway has been denied her prerogative, as a ťfree and independent Kingdomť. —  The Swedish-Norwegian Union Crisis A History with Documents
• If the States would not surrender their prerogative, the National Government would be compelled to exercise its larger prerogative embodied in the power to tax. —  Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860

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