Word: veto
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...captains and managers of the four major sports in the Trophy Room of the Union this evening at 7 o'clock, to elect a second assistant football manager. This is the first time that this new method of electing managers has been used. The election is subject to the veto of the football captain, but may be passed over his veto by a three-quarters vote of those present...
Atlantic Monthly--"Editing," by Sir L. Stephen h.'90; "The Last Royal Veto," by W. Everett '59; "The New Revelation in Science," by J. Trowbridge...
...passed the House of Representatives and goes to the Senate today, will, if it becomes a law, enable those now eligible to vote for overseers to decide at the election in June whether or not the Act of 1865 is to remain in force. The electors have thus a veto power over the action of the Legislature...
...Marshall who established in unquestioned integrity the position of the judiciary as co-ordinate with and equal to the legislative branches of the government, and made the Supreme Court recognized as the power qualified to sanction or veto legislative acts. He laid down for all time the fundamental considerations which fix and govern the relative functions of the nation and the States, he defined the powers of the legislatures, and made clear the conception and theory of the American doctrine of constitutional law. He was not overweening in his assumption of the power of the court, but, on the other...