Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only Congressional action passed despite Nixon's veto in 1973 (eight others failed), the Resolution possesses a dubious honor at best. On the one hand, it was an honest attempt by Congress to restrain a President who had almost certainly overstepped his Constitutional bounds. But on the other hand this legislation must be seen as a manifestation of the time in which it was written. As such it cannot be viewed as an objective piece of Constitutional adjustment. While the intentions behind it--achievement of a consensus of use of American force, guarantee of debate on potentially dangerous actions, fulfillment...
...Tonkin Gulf Resolution. In 1965, President Johnson was given essentially unlimited power to fight Vietnam by an overwhelming majority of Congress. The only two Senators who voted against it were defeated for re-election. And yet eight years later, a diametrically opposed measure was passed over Nixon's veto...
...cast its weight behind a resolution that "deeply deplores the armed intervention in Grenada, which constitutes a flagrant violation of international law and of the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of that state." The vote was 11 to 1, with Britain abstaining; the U.S. was forced to use its veto in order to kill the resolution...
...this case, Dukakis should follow his heart, not his political sense, and promptly veto this patently unfair piece of legislation. Linking financial aid to registration discriminates against students who rely on financial aid to go to college, making them more accountable than better-off students to the registration law. Rather than deciding whether to veto according to the weathervane of public opinion, the governor should use his veto power according to the stated ideals for which he was elected...
Regardless of "public sentiment" to sign the bill, Dukakis should still veto it, if only to postpone it for at least a year. This would allow time for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on constitutionality of linking financial aid with draft registration on a national level--a law which opponents say violates the right to a fair trial and induces self-incrimination. Since the justices are expected to decide on the matter in the next few months, it would seem practical for Dukakis to delay implementation and see whether his "serious questions" are indeed justified...