veto

Examples of veto in the following topics:

• Chief Legislator

  • When the president receives legislation, he decides whether to veto it, use the pocket veto, sign it, or do nothing.
  • In 1996, Congress attempted to enhance the president's veto power with the Line Item Veto Act.
  • If the president then vetoed the new legislation, Congress could override the veto by the ordinary method of a two-thirds vote in both houses.
  • Supreme Court ruled such a legislative alteration of the veto power to be unconstitutional.
  • Assess the significance of the Line Item Veto for executive power

• Checks and Balances

  • An example of this is the president's veto power: the president can limit Congress's power by vetoing a bill.
  • However, the legislative branch can overturn this veto with a two-thirds majority in both of the houses, thus maintaining the balance.
  • The President exercises a check over Congress through his power to veto bills, but Congress may override any veto by a two-thirds majority in each house.

• The Conflict-Resolution Function

  • If the bill is vetoed, the president returns it to Congress with his objections.
  • A vetoed bill can still become law if each house of Congress votes to override the veto with a two-thirds majority.
  • However, if Congress is adjourned during this period, the president may veto legislation passed at the end of a congressional session simply by ignoring it.
  • This maneuver is known as a pocket veto.

• Checking the Power of the Governing Party

  • The House and Senate may, additionally, override presidential vetoes and have the sole power to declare war.
  • At the same time, the president can veto legislation passed by Congress.

• How a Bill Becomes Law

  • The need to receive approval can be used as a political tool by the executive and its refusal is known as a veto.
  • The legislature often has the power to override the veto of the executive by means of a supermajority.

• Constitutional Issues and Compromises

  • The plan also gave the Governor, an executive elected by electors for a life-term of service, an absolute veto over bills.
  • State governors would be appointed by the national legislature, and the national legislature had veto power over any state legislation.

• The Virginia and New Jersey Plans

  • The concept of checks and balances was embodied in a provision that a council composed of the executive and selected members of the judicial branch could veto legislative acts.
  • An unspecified legislative majority could override their veto.

• Vertical Checks and Balances

  • He executes the instructions of Congress, may veto bills passed by Congress, and executes the spending authorized by Congress.

• Political Party Leader

  • Since the founding of the United States, the power of the president and the federal government have grown substantially, and each modern president, despite possessing no formal legislative powers beyond signing or vetoing congressionally passed bills, is largely responsible for dictating the legislative agenda of his party and the foreign and domestic policy of the United States .

• The President

  • Congress's most concerted effort to restrict presidential war powers, the War Powers Act, passed despite President Nixon's veto in 1973.