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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>

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==

==Item Veto==

==Item Veto==

Authority to veto part rather than all of an [[appropriation|appropriations]] act. The President does not now have item-veto authority. He must sign or veto the entire appropriations act. The item veto sometimes is referred to as a line-item veto.<ref>[http://www.senate.gov/reference/glossary_term/item_veto.htm] US Senate Reference</ref>

Authority to veto part rather than all of an [[appropriation]]s act. The President does not now have item-veto authority. He must sign or veto the entire appropriations act. The item veto sometimes is referred to as a line-item veto.<ref>[http://www.senate.gov/reference/glossary_term/item_veto.htm] US Senate Reference</ref>

Supporters of a line-item veto hold that it would allow the president to act as a limit on government spending, and prevent the common practice of using appropriations bills to hold unpopular amendments that cannot then be voted down without rejecting the entire bill. Opponents claim that it would give the president excessive power, allowing him to deprive departments of funding at will without the approval of congress.

Supporters of a line-item veto hold that it would allow the president to act as a limit on government spending, and prevent the common practice of using appropriations bills to hold unpopular amendments that cannot then be voted down without rejecting the entire bill. Opponents claim that it would give the president excessive power, allowing him to deprive departments of funding at will without the approval of congress.

==Intent of the Framers==

==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>.

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:

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>

<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>