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8 sentences with 'veto'

Example sentences and phrases with the word veto and other words derived from it.

Brief definition: veto

The power to reject or forbid a decision or law, usually by a president or leader. It stops a proposal from becoming official. It can also mean to refuse or block something.


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By 133 BC, the Senate proposed legislation and could veto the consuls' legislation.
Masters sometimes allowed slaves to choose their own partners, but they could also veto a union.
When the bill to re-charter the bank was passed and reached President Jackson, he used his executive authority to veto the measure.
Jackson's veto of the bank and his Specie Circular helped galvanize opposition forces into a new political party, the Whigs, a faction that began to form in 1834.
Jackson's veto was only part of the war against the "monster bank". In 1833, the president withdrew deposits from the national bank and placed them in state banks.
The veto on eating hoofed animals was to avoid the fatal contagion of trichinosis, a disease typical of the herd of pigs that accompanied the Semitic tribes of the Middle East.
He advanced the idea of a concurrent majority, a majority of a separate region (otherwise in the minority of the nation) with the power to veto or overrule legislation introduced by a hostile majority.
John Adams drafted much of the Massachusetts constitution of 1780, which reflected his fear of too much democracy. He created two legislative chambers, one upper and one lower, and a strong governor with broad veto powers.

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