The Veto Power in the United States: What is It?

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A. C. Getchell, 1888 - 141 страници
 

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Страница 53 - The Governor shall have power to disapprove of any item or items of any bill making appropriations of money, embracing distinct items, and the part or parts of the bill approved shall be the law, and the item or items of appropriations disapproved shall be void, unless repassed according to the rules and limitations prescribed for the passage of other bills over the executive veto.
Страница 45 - ... approved by two-thirds of the members present, shall have the force of a law; but in all such cases, the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays; and the names of the persons voting for, or against, the said bill or resolve, shall be entered upon the public records of the commonwealth.
Страница 44 - No bill or resolve of the senate or house of representatives shall become a law, and have force as such, until it shall have been laid before the governor for his revisal ; and if he, upon such revision, approve thercof, he shall signify his approbation by signing the same.
Страница 38 - To the End that Laws, before they are enacted, may be more maturely considered, and the Inconvenience of hasty Determinations • as much as possible prevented, all Bills of a public Nature shall be printed for the Consideration of the People...
Страница 45 - I. If any bill or resolve shall be objected to, and not approved by the governor ; and if the general court shall adjourn within five days after the same shall have been laid before the governor for his approbation, and thereby prevent his returning it witli his objections, as provided by the constitution, such bill or resolve shall not become a law, nor have force as such.
Страница 8 - In the government of this State, the three essential powers thereof, to wit, the legislative, executive, and judicial, ought to be kept as separate from, and independent of, each other, as the nature of a free government will admit, or as is consistent with that chain of connexion that binds the whole fabric of the constitution in one indissoluble bond of unity and amity.
Страница 52 - The primary inducement to conferring the power in question upon the Executive is, to enable him to defend himself; the secondary one is to increase the chances in favor of the community against the passing of bad laws, through haste, inadvertence, or design.
Страница 44 - Executive and a convenient number of the National Judiciary, ought to compose a council of revision with authority to examine every act of the National Legislature before it shall operate, and every act of a particular Legislature before a Negative thereon shall be final; and that the dissent of the said Council shall amount to a rejection, unless the Act of the National Legislature be again passed, or that of a particular Legislature be again negatived by of the members of each branch.
Страница 50 - And that all bills which have passed the senate and assembly shall, before they become laws be presented to the said council for their revisal and consideration; and if upon such...
Страница 51 - ... thereto in writing, to the senate or house of assembly, in whichsoever the same shall have originated, who shall enter the objections set down by the council, at large, in their minutes, and proceed to reconsider the said bill.

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