The Americans had been used to having the acts of their popular assemblies reviewed by a council, and so they retained this Revisory body as an upper house.
"The Critical Period of American History"
John Fiske
The General Government of the Union is composed of three departments, of which the Congress is the legislative branch, and which is checked by the Revisory power of the judiciary, and the veto power of the Executive, and, above all, is expressly limited in legislation to powers expressly delegated by the States.
"The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Vol. 1 (of 2)"
Jefferson Davis
I make some Revisory notes, also change some thirty pages, and gladly embrace the opportunity, which the popularity of my "Guide" gives me, to make known, as far as it goes abroad, that, when I came home from Europe, I found what I had seen to be the indispensable condition of an effective introduction of Froebel's art into either the private or public education of America; viz.
"Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy."
Elizabeth P. Peabody Mary Mann