suspensive veto
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The king could affix a suspensive veto to the acts of the Cortes.
From A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. Hayes
The King was denied all initiative, being granted merely a suspensive veto, and in the reform of the judicial system the prestige of the lawyers was also destroyed.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane
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 respect to measures generally, the king possessed only a suspensive veto; that is to say, any measure passed by three successive legislatures acquired, without the royal sanction, the force of law.
From The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg
They resolved, on September 21, that the suspensive veto should extend over two legislatures.
From Lectures on the French Revolution by John Neville Figgis
