Word: vetoing
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Matanzima's powers to govern the Transkei's 1,400,000 blacks, 15,000 to 20,000 whites, and 14,000 coloreds will be strictly limited. All measures passed by the local legislature of tribal chiefs and elected representatives are subject to veto by the central government; Cape Town still will control justice and internal security. Money to improve the barren region will be lacking. Verwoerd has promised an annual budget subsidy of $30 million, but this falls far short of meeting the need for housing, schools, land reclamation, establishing new industry. In addition, Matanzima faces powerful political...
...allied fighting strength are sufficiently meager-it is two divisions behind its commitments in Germany, it withholds its Mediterranean fleet from NATO, keeps most of its metropolitan territory out of the air warning system, and even prohibits foreign nuclear weapons on French soil. Still, sheer geography gives France a veto on NATO planning. Could France be ignored in the tariff discussions of the 40-odd members of GATT, or in OECD, the European economic coordinating group that grew out of the Marshall Plan? Hardly, since the economies of all Western European nations are intertwined with France's. The urgent...
...Limits. Even before the French veto, U.S. investments in the Common Market had begun to slacken, largely because Europe's boom has sagged somewhat and investment opportunities are fewer. Now that Britain's rejection cuts down the size of the potential market, many U.S. firms that might have made the trip to Europe are sure to reconsider. The Europeans do not seem seriously bothered by this possibility. France has clearly shown that it wants to limit U.S. investment. The West Germans and even the usually accommodating Dutch have already started making it more difficult for U.S. businessmen...
Opponents of the reduction, and some liberals who failed to support it, say that the present Senate two-thirds rule strikes a happy numerical compromise between complete majoritarianism and one-man veto. Why, I wonder, is two-thirds a happier compromise than three-fourths or four-sevenths, or five-eights, or three-fifths? Why, except that it has been sufficient for one hundred years to abort legislation attempting to implement the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments...
...issue raises a conflict between two fundamental democratic tenets: that the will of the majority should prevail, and that minorities should be protected against misrule by force of numbers. The present Senate two-thirds rule strikes a happy numerical compromise between complete majoritarianism and one-man veto...