presumptive right

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• Act One: Obama wins reelection, thus earning the presumptive right to name to high office pretty much whomever he wants.

  President Obama Needs to Defend Chuck Hagel If He Is Nominated for Secretary of Defense | Peter Beinart | December 20, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST

• I claim the throne by presumptive right; he, by a right admitted to be subordinate to mine.

  The Princess Dehra | John Reed Scott

• Riesser wished to combat any presumptive right of forcing conscience.

  History of the Jews, Vol. V (of 6) | Heinrich Graetz