suspensive veto
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The president is, moreover, provided with a suspensive veto, which allows him to oppose the passing of such laws as might destroy the portion of independence which the constitution awards him.
From American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville
Moreover, it speedily came into conflict with the king, who vainly endeavored to use his constitutional right of suspensive veto in order to check its activities.
From A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. Hayes
He had but one attribute, the suspensive veto, which consisted of his right to suspend, for three years, the execution of the Assembly's decrees.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde
In order to exclude the intervention of the king in favour of a suspensive veto, he accepted the argument that the Constitution was in the hands of the Assembly alone.
From Lectures on the French Revolution by John Neville Figgis
The governor had a sort of suspensive veto.
From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard
