Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Parliament, however, that the British wanted to empower the commission to draw up what would amount to a new constitution and then present it for the approval of both the blacks and Rhodesia's minority of 220,000 whites. Moreover, said Wilson, Britain would expect to have a veto over the Royal Commission's work. Even then, Wilson added, "the British government cannot guarantee that it will accept the report...
...rivers-and-harbors bill, Johnson issued a peppery pronunciamento warning that he had absolutely no intention of implementing the act's provision that water-resources projects costing under $10 million be authorized by congressional public works committees-a short cut that would bypass the possibility of a presidential veto. Discussing this section, the President declared: "The people of this country did not elect me to this office to preside over its erosion. And I intend to turn over this office with all of its responsibilities and powers intact to the next man who sits in this chair...
...Governor's refusal to sign questionable legislation has given rise to the gibe that Rosellini has been succeeded by "another Italian, Danny Veto." On a more constructive level, Evans has promoted interstate cooperation with Oregon, Idaho and Montana, traveled from Boston to Tokyo to seek trade and new industry, pared 1,200 jobs from the state payroll, and reduced the state deficit...
What's Wrong? From the California Real Estate Association, the court heard a far different story. Section 26 represents the people's overwhelming veto of "ill-conceived" laws forbidding private discrimination, said Los Angeles Lawyer Samuel O. Pruitt Jr. Those laws, he suggested, violated private-property rights under the due-process clause of the 14th Amendment. In effect, they empowered the state to tell property owners to whom they must sell or rent...
...French. They brushed aside French proposals to 1) permanently curtail the commission's powers, 2) settle the current dispute between France and the five outside EEC's structure, and 3) alter the treaty creating the Common Market so that France will not automatically lose its power to veto Common Market decisions, as it is scheduled to do in January...