Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...received its inception. After the Austrian war the Reichstag was established. This body is elected by the people and represents them, while the Bundesrath represents the governments of the different states. The Reichstag is a single chamber, and its main function is to discuss and sanction. The Bundesrath can veto any legislation of the Reichstag, and its vetoes are incontestable. In this is found the first obstacle to constitutional government in Germany. Under the present government a responsible ministry is an impossibility, which forms another obstacle. A third is found in the relation of Prussia to the Empire...
...Thousands of ex-soldiers are dependent for support on private charity, or are in our almshouses; the nation should support them. (b) Lack of legislation for special cases. (c) The bill is framed so as to reduce fraud to a minimum, thereby meeting the objections in the President's veto message of last year...
...more burdensome evil than the standing armies of Europe.- 2. Actual sufferers have been sufficiently recompensed.- 3. Proposed legislation is extravagant and wasteful.- 4. It is impossible to estimate how much will be needed to meet the demands of this bill: Nation, 44, p. 92; President's veto of Feb. 14, 1887; Public Opinion...
...practice with professionals. We have been handicapped long enough by this regulation and must do something to bring about a change. The faculty's position will prove untenable if we only assail it. The first necessity is some one to start the movement. The faculty will never raise their veto unless they are asked. Occasional editorials in college papers or hints in student assemblies have no weight. What is needed is an aroused public sentiment, such as will show itself in mass meetings and monster petitions. This course was what won our voluntary prayer system, and this course alone will...
...Princeton was held last Friday. A constitution to govern the Graduate Advisory Committee was drafted and adopted. Among the powers defined as belonging to the committee of graduates are those of impeachment of undergraduate athletic officers in case of mal administration through lack of interest or incompetence, and of veto in regard to changes proposed by the executive committee in regard to any of the athletic grounds or buildings. It was also voted at the meeting that the captains, managers and treasurers of the football, baseball and track associations, including the University treasurer, constitute an executive committee to have charge...