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 Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Henry Reeves
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
The people have a suspensive veto and, finally, a definitive veto, which they may exercise when they please.
From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by John Durand
Lafayette, who imagined himself to be copying the American constitution, proposed that the king should have a suspensive veto.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
The President of France, on the other hand, possesses only a suspensive veto.
From The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg
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