Ultimately, the plebeian tribune's veto was based in a promise of physical force.

Born Appius Claudius Pulcher, a member of the Claudii descended from Appius Claudius Caecus, he was received into the house of the tribune as an infant and was brought up along with the tribune's nieces and nephews by the tribune's wife, Servilia, sister of Livia Drusa's first husband.

These in turn stemmed from Medieval Latin tribuna and from Classical Latin tribunal, the elevated placing of a tribune's ( or other Roman magistrate's ) seat for official functions in the manner of a throne.

This was not the first time that Caesar had violated a tribune's sacrosanctity.

The tribune's power, however, was only in effect while he was within Rome.

The plebeian aedile functioned as the tribune's assistant, and often performed similar duties to those of the curule aediles.

Also, as holder of the tribune's power, the emperor would convoke the Council of the People, lay legislation before it, and served as the council's president.

Including the two remaining stands behind the goal areas, namely the " Migros " and " Telsim " stands ( named after the sponsors of each tribune's construction projects ), which both have a seating capacity of 10, 500, the total official capacity of the stadium is 50, 509.

The Soviets boycotted UN Security Council meetings while protesting the Council's failure to seat the People's Republic of China and, thus, did not veto the Council's approval of UN action to oppose the North Korean invasion.

Hanotaux did not like how the French language was losing its position as the international language and saw Esperanto as a threat, effectively wielding his veto power to block the decision.

After the veto, Roosevelt reversed himself, as did many legislators, and the veto was sustained.

) Scullin was equally insistent that the monarch must act on the relevant Prime Minister's direct advice ( the practice until 1926 was that Dominion prime ministers advised the monarch indirectly, through the British government, which effectively had a veto over any proposal it did not agree with ).

In 48 BC, Caesar was given permanent tribunician powers, which made his person sacrosanct and allowed him to veto the Senate, although on at least one occasion, tribunes did attempt to obstruct him.

His ability to veto did not affect regional governors.

" Yet as late as 1934, there was still no regularly scheduled newscast on network radio: " Most sponsors did not want network news programming ; those that did were inclined to expect veto rights over it.

( Soviet Union boycotted U. N. and did not veto.

Many in the North were also upset with the Walker tariff which reduced the tariff rates ; others were opposed to Polk ’ s veto of a popular river and harbor improvements bill, and still others were upset over the Oregon settlement with Great Britain where it appeared that Polk did not pursue the northern territory with the same vigor he used to acquire Texas.

All bills had to receive the signature of the president to become law and, although he did not have an absolute veto on legislation, he could insist that a law be submitted for the approval of voters in a referendum.

Without the line-item veto, Presidents have often felt compelled to sign controversial riders into law even if they did not support them.

The Presidents of the Continental Congress ( 1774 – 1781 ) did not have the power of veto.

Successful nuclear waste storage siting efforts in Scandinavia have involved local communities in the decision-making process and given them a veto at each stage, but this did not happen with Yucca Mountain.

If the Senate proposed a bill that the plebeian tribune ( the magistrate who was the chief representative of the people ) did not agree with, he issued a veto, which was backed by the promise to literally "' interpose the sacrosanctity of his person '" ( or intercessio ) if the Senate did not comply.

Perry cautioned Congress in September of the possibility that President Clinton would veto the FY 1996 Defense budget bill because Congress had added $ 7 billion in overall spending, mainly for weapon systems that the Defense Department did not want, and because of restrictions on contingency operations Congress had put in the bill.

That is, the UN was structured in accordance with Lodge's plan, with the United States having a veto power in the UN which it did not have in the old League of Nations.

Members of the opposition denounced the bill, and asked the King to veto it, which he did in December.

Producer Norman Whitfield recorded four versions of the song with various artists for potential single release ; Knight and the Pips ' version was the only one that Motown chief Berry Gordy did not veto.

Only Greece failed to support the use of airstrikes, but did not veto the proposal.

In addition to the United States, the United Kingdom, Poland, South Korea, and Italy did not sponsor the resolution, but the last four nations voted in support of Boutros-Ghali after the US had firmly declared its intention to veto.

However, even if the proposal got through the British House of Commons ( and the first two attempts, in 1886 and 1893 did not ), the British House of Lords, with its massive unionist majority, was guaranteed to veto it.

To prevent this occurrence Caesar bribed the plebeian tribune Curio to use his veto to prevent a senatorial decree which would deprive Caesar of his armies and provincial command, and then made sure Antony was elected tribune for the next term of office.

Also, the line-item veto can be used to prevent the enactment of controversial rider amendments that powerful legislators have sometimes inserted into important bills, or at least it can be used to ensure that someone elected at the national level is accountable for the enactment of such amendments.

In an effort to stop Tiberius, the Senate persuaded Marcus Octavius, another tribune, to use his veto to prevent the submission of the bills to the Assembly.

The tribunes could also use the veto to prevent a bill from being brought before the plebeian assembly.

The Court stated that if state court decisions involving federal law were unreviewable by the federal courts, then each state could prevent the federal government from executing federal laws within that state, giving each state veto power over federal law.

However once Jugurtha had reached Rome another tribune used his veto to prevent evidence being given.

In the event that the legislature adjourns to prevent the return of a bill by veto, the bill becomes law three days after the commencement of the next legislative session unless the governor explicitly vetoes it.

Use of its veto power to prevent the Security Council from issuing resolutions condemning Israeli military action has frequently divided the U. S. from the Soviet Union, China and France in the Security Council ; since 1989 the U. S. government has dissented against security council resolutions on 12 occasions out of 17 total instances when a permanent member vetoed.

However, the judges of the Supreme Court of Canada, the majority of them ( 7 out of 9 ) appointed by Trudeau ( Bora Laskin, Robert Dickson, Jean Beetz, Willard Estey, William McIntyre, Bertha Wilson, Antonio Lamer ), ruled in the Patriation Reference and the Quebec Veto Reference that neither Quebec nor any other province had a veto to prevent the federal government from petitioning the British Parliament to pass the Canada Act 1982, and that the new constitution applied to all provinces notwithstanding their disagreement.

This bill had already passed both chambers of the legislature by a veto-proof majority, so a veto would not have been able to prevent this bill from becoming law.

Crittenden debated the issue at length with Senator Benton, and Congress ultimately passed a bill requiring the government to accept the notes of specie-paying banks for the purchase of government lands, but President Jackson employed his pocket veto to prevent it from becoming law.

France, however, used its power of veto in the UN to prevent the Security Council from passing a resolution condemning France.

Of the opposition, six members of Congress, including Republican Mark Hatfield, sued to prevent use of the line-item veto.

( 6 ) The presentment process — especially the President's veto power — was intended by the Framers to provide a mechanism by which the executive branch could defend itself against legislative encroachment and could prevent ill-conceived policies.

' Libet concludes that we have no free will in the initiation of our movements ; though, since subjects were able to prevent intended movement at the last moment, we do have a veto.

A heckler's veto occurs when an acting party's right to freedom of speech is curtailed or restricted by the government in order to prevent a reacting party's behavior.

To prevent the use of liberum veto from disrupting Sejm proceedings, the session was turned into a confederated sejm.

The United Nations Security Council " power of veto " refers to the veto power wielded solely by the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council ( China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, and United States ), enabling them to prevent the adoption of any " substantive " draft Council resolution, regardless of the level of international support for the draft.

Although the " power of veto " is not explicitly mentioned in the UN Charter, the fact that " substantive " decisions by the UNSC require " the concurring votes of the permanent members ", means that any of those permanent members can prevent the adoption, by the Council, of any draft resolutions on " substantive " matters.

Usually this will be implemented through clauses in a company's Articles of Association, and will be designed to prevent stakebuilding above a certain percentage ownership level, or to give a government veto powers over any major corporate action, such as the sale of a major asset or subsidiary or of the company as a whole.

In 2009, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that a group of founders of SofaWare, which includes Bogner, has veto power to prevent SofaWare from taking any decision of which he disapproves.

However, to prevent abuse of the kingly power, the imperium was shared by two consuls, each of whom could veto the other ’ s actions.