The Appointments Clause [of Article II] clearly implies a power of the Senate to give advice on and, if it chooses to do so, to consent to a nomination, but it says nothing about how the Senate should go about exercising that power. The text of the Constitution thus leaves the Senate free to exercise that power however it sees fit. Throughout American history, the Senate has frequently – surely, thousands of times – exercised its power over nominations by declining to act on them.
The defeated group in hetherington's term refers to the people who are failing in maintaining the marriage commitment with their partner. The problems that caused the failure mostly come from either emotional issues or personal issues between the couples.
