His veto message objected to the measure because it conferred citizenship on the freedmen at a time when eleven out of thirty-six states were unrepresented in the Congress, and the bill also attempted to fix, by federal law, " a perfect equality of the white and black races in every State of the Union.

At all events from his December message to the veto of the Civil Rights Bill he yielded not a jot to Congress.

While this sort of bipartisan graft had previously been tolerated in Buffalo, Mayor Cleveland would have none of it, and replied with a stinging veto message: " I regard it as the culmination of a most bare-faced, impudent, and shameless scheme to betray the interests of the people, and to worse than squander the public money ".

In his veto message, he espoused a theory of limited government:

In the event of a veto, the governor returns the bill to the house in which it originated, with a message explaining his objections and suggesting any amendments ( if applicable ) which might remove those objections.

This was not the first time that a President has attempted to pocket veto a bill despite the presence of agents to receive his veto message.

In his veto message, Carcieri made the following statement: " This bill represents a disturbing trend over the past few years of the incremental erosion of the principles surrounding traditional marriage, which is not the preferred way to approach this issue.

In his veto message, Schwarzenegger argued that passing a law that would implicitly repeal Section 308. 5 required the assent of the electorate ( and separately made note of pending court challenges ).

After the American Civil War, he vigorously opposed the Congressional Plan for Reconstruction and drafted President Johnson's message vetoing the Reconstruction Act passed on March 2, 1867 ; his veto was overridden.

In his view, “ the Court ’ s decision sent a clear message of finality for any future use of the line item veto .” Kennedy also noted that while the majority relied on a strict interpretation or literal textual reading of the Presentment Clause contained in Article I of the United States Constitution, Justice Scalia, in his dissent, “ stray somewhat from his usual strict constructionist approach ... by stressing that the President ’ s act of cancellation would only occur after satisfaction of the Presentment Clause .”

His veto message said:

The termination date of the House Select Committee on Homeland Security was “ after final disposition of a bill including final disposition of any veto message on such bill, ” which occurred on November 25, 2002.

In his veto message Governor Odell said: " The operations of the College of Forestry have been subjected to grave criticism, as they have practically denuded the forest lands of the State without compensating benefits.

If the president opposes the bill, he can veto it and return the legislation to Congress with a veto message offering suggested changes.

In his veto message accompanying the return of the unsigned bill to the Legislature, he stated that just as in 1997, the State Bar had again become inefficient, scandal-ridden, and excessively politicized.

** The President may either sign a bill into law or veto it, sending a veto message with his objections back to the house that originated the bill.

In the event of a veto, the governor returns the bill to the house in which it originated, with a message explaining his objections and suggesting any amendments ( if applicable ) which might remove those objections.

" He supported civil rights moves and objected to President Andrew Johnson's attempts to veto the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Reconstruction Acts.

The government of Quebec, in line with its policy of the duality of nations, objected to the new Canadian constitutional arrangement of 1982 ( the patriation ), because its formula for future constitutional amendments failed to give Quebec veto power over all constitutional changes.

However, the Republicans in Congress overrode his veto and the Civil Rights measure became law.

Despite the initial popularity of the measure, the newspapers praised Cleveland's veto.

In 2008, a bitter controversy over euthanasia had parliament pass a measure which would restrict the veto powers of the grand-duke, who had opposed the pro-euthanasia law on the grounds of his private Christian conscience, much like what had occurred in Belgium in the early 1990s on the topic of abortion.

The Free French declared the conditional ' independence ' of Syria again in 1941, but it wasn't until the Syrian Chamber of Deputies unilaterally voted on 30 November 1943 to remove article 116 of the constitution, which gave the French power of veto over any bill, that Syria gained any real measure of independence.

While a tribune could veto any act of the senate, the assemblies, or the magistrates, he could only veto the act, and not the actual measure.

This is the most conclusive form of veto, for the Legislature ( having adjourned ) has no chance to reconsider the vetoed measure.

" A similar bill, the Water Resources Development Act of 2007, which included the text of the original Corps peer review measure, eventually passed by Congress in 2007, overriding Presidential veto.

The President's veto was upheld by the people of Iceland when they voted upon the measure in March 2010.

The Governor of Vermont had previously vetoed the measure, but the veto was overridden by the Legislature.

Reserving 14 Senate seats for nominees of the Great Council of Chiefs gave them the quota ( more than a third ) required to veto amendments to the constitution, while reserving seats for Government and Opposition nominees, the latter reflecting the political composition of the House of Representatives, guaranteed an acceptable, if not numerically equitable, measure of representation to Indo-Fijians and other minorities.

President George W. Bush threatened to veto the measure.

Permanent members who do not support a measure, but are unwilling to be seen to block it against the wishes of the majority of the Council, tend to abstain ; abstentions by veto powers are generally seen by close observers of the UN as the equivalent of not vetoing votes against and have the same impact on the decision of the Security Council.

In California a vote on a measure referred to voters by the legislature is a mandatory referendum ; a vote to veto a law that has already been adopted by the legislature is an optional referendum or " people's veto "; the process of proposing laws by petition is the initiative.

In the United Nations Security Council, representatives of the five countries holding a veto power ( the United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia and the People's Republic of China ) sometimes abstain rather than vetoing a measure about which they are less than enthusiastic, particularly if the measure otherwise has broad support.

Wilkinson threatened to veto the measure, claiming he did not need the General Assembly's approval to issue the bonds, but ultimately, he chose to allow it to become law without his signature.

He also wrote an influential critique of the Taft-Hartley Act which was used by President Harry S. Truman as background material to justify his veto of the measure.

Powell implemented the use of the state's sinking fund to pay interest on school bonds, a measure which had passed over Governor Helm's veto, but Helm refused to carry out.

He opposed a 1996 municipal bill that banned smoking in restaurants and bars, and requested that provincial Premier Mike Harris veto the measure ( Montreal Gazette, 8 July 1996 ).

This is the most conclusive form of veto, for the Legislature ( having adjourned ) has no chance to reconsider the vetoed measure.

The amendment was submitted to the states for ratification by Congressional joint resolution, and therefore was not subject to Presidential veto, though Johnson vigorously opposed it, again because so many southern states were not represented in the Congress.

The consuls served for only a year ( a restriction intended to limit the amassing of power by individuals ) and could only rule when they agreed, because each consul could veto the other's decision.

The United States used its veto in the UN Security Council to block the proposal to lift the sanctions because of the continued failure of Iraq to verify disarmament.

The European Commission was due to provide a final draft for the positive list by the end of 2000 ; however, this failed because of a veto from Germany and a few other Member States.

The veto fell into disuse because Sovereigns feared that if they denied legislation Parliament would deny them money.

Despite the efforts of the United States, Israel, Egypt, and others to obtain an extension of the UN role in observing the peace between Israel and Egypt, as called for under the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty of 1979, the mandate could not be extended because of the veto by the USSR in the security council, at the request of Syria.

Many farmers and working men favored the bill ; but Eastern bankers favored a veto because of their reliance on bonds and foreign investors.

The bill was vetoed by President Woodrow Wilson, largely on technical grounds because it also covered wartime prohibition, but his veto was overridden by the House on the same day, October 28, 1919, and by the Senate one day later.

The Tax Reform Act of 1986 was given impetus by a detailed tax-simplification proposal from President Reagan's Treasury Department, and was designed to be tax-revenue neutral because Reagan stated that he would veto any bill that was not.

82 the constitution does not explicitly rule out that the president can even refuse to sign a law merely because he disagrees with its content, i. e. that he has a power of veto, but no president since World War II has ever used this theoretically given veto power.

The opposition led by Islamic parties boycotted the 2002 election in protest at the bicameral nature of the parliament, because the appointed upper chamber, the Shura Council, has the power to veto legislation.

Octavius opposed Tiberius because Tiberius would not let him veto the Lex Sempronia Agraria.

In the 19th century there were several attempts to eliminate Churchill County because of its small population, but Assemblyman Lemuel Allen was able to stop it on all occasions including convincing the Governor to veto the bill after it had been passed by both houses in 1875.

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.

The elections were void because of the excessive use of the tribunes ' veto.

The Clinton Administration issued a veto threat, in part because the bill would eliminate “ the longstanding right of unitary thrift holding companies to engage in any lawful business ,” but primarily because the bill required national banks to conduct expanded activities through holding company subsidiaries rather than the bank “ operating subsidiaries ” authorized by the OCC in 1996.

The Council of State proved unable to veto the legal drafts or to give Chulalongkorn advices because the members still respected Chulalongkorn as an absolutist monarch.

Unable to bring the issue of the partition of Ireland to the UN ( because of Britain's veto on the Security Council ) and because of unwillingness of other Western nations to interfere in what these Western nations saw as British affairs at that time ( the US taking a more ambiguous position ), Aiken ensured that Ireland vigorously defended the rights of small nations such as Tibet and Hungary, nations whose problems he felt Ireland could identify with and had a moral obligation to help.

So in most cases a bill vetoed by the Reichsrat effectively died because there were not enough votes in the Reichstag to overrule the veto.