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A '''veto''' is the procedure established under the [[United_States_Constitution|Constitution]] by which the [[President_of_the_United_States_of_America|President]] refuses to approve a [[bill]] or [[joint resolution]] and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. The veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the [[United States Senate|Senate]] and the [[United_States_House_of_Representatives|House]].<ref>[http://www.senate.gov/reference/glossary_term/veto.htm] US Senate Reference</ref>
A '''veto''', or '''revisionary check''' is the procedure established under the [[United_States_Constitution|Constitution]] by which the [[President_of_the_United_States_of_America|President]] refuses to approve a [[bill]] or [[joint resolution]] and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. The veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the [[United States Senate|Senate]] and the [[United_States_House_of_Representatives|House]].<ref>[http://www.senate.gov/reference/glossary_term/veto.htm] US Senate Reference</ref>
==Veto Override==
==Veto Override==
The '''pocket veto''' occurs if the President does not sign a bill during the 10-day period and Congress adjourns during the 10-day period. In this case, the bill does '''not''' become law.<ref>[http://www.senate.gov/reference/glossary_term/pocket_veto.htm] US Senate Reference</ref>
The '''pocket veto''' occurs if the President does not sign a bill during the 10-day period and Congress adjourns during the 10-day period. In this case, the bill does '''not''' become law.<ref>[http://www.senate.gov/reference/glossary_term/pocket_veto.htm] US Senate Reference</ref>
==Intent of the Framers==
During the [[Constitutional Convention]], the veto was routinely referred to as a 'revisionary power'<ref>{{cite web |last1=Madison|first1=James |url=http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/debcont.asp|title=Notes on the Debates in the Federal Convention |date=1787 }}</ref>.
The Veto was constructed not as an absolute veto, but rather with limits. Such as that Congress can override a veto, and that a President must state their objections in writing<ref name="veto">{{cite book|last1=Spitzer|first1=Robert J.|title=The Presidential Veto|date=1988|publisher=State University of New York Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0887068027|pages=18-19}}</ref>. These limits would have been important in the minds of the Founders since the King of Britain was stripped of an absolute veto in 1689<ref>[https://books.google.com/books/about/Presidential_Defiance_of_unconstitutiona.html?id=Df8VAQAAIAAJ Presidential Defiance of "unconstitutional" Laws: Reviving the Royal Prerogative] See description.</ref>. Further, as [[Elbridge Gerry]] explained in the final days of the Convention:
<blockquote>The primary object of the revisionary check of the President is not to protect the general interest, but to defend his own department.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Madison|first1=James |url=http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_912.asp|title=Notes on the Debates in the Federal Convention |date=September 12, 1787 }}</ref></blockquote>
==References==
==References==
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[[Category:United States Senate Terms]]
[[Category:United States Senate Terms]]