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pocket veto
(encz) | pocket veto, n: |
Pocket veto
(gcide) | Pocket veto \Pocket veto\
The retention by the President of the United States of a bill
unsigned so that it does not become a law, in virtue of the
following constitutional provision (--Const. Art. I., sec. 7,
cl. 2): "If any bill shall not be returned by the President
within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been
presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as
if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment
prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law."
Also, an analogous retention of a bill by a State governor.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
pocket veto
(wn) | pocket veto
n 1: indirect veto of legislation by refusing to sign it |
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Pocket veto
(gcide) | Pocket veto \Pocket veto\
The retention by the President of the United States of a bill
unsigned so that it does not become a law, in virtue of the
following constitutional provision (--Const. Art. I., sec. 7,
cl. 2): "If any bill shall not be returned by the President
within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been
presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as
if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment
prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law."
Also, an analogous retention of a bill by a State governor.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
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