liberum veto

Immediately, there was a national groundswell of voices calling for Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to veto the bill.
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By giving an artistic veto to a madman, we submit to the mindset of a slave.
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In his veto message, Christie also chided Democratic lawmakers for “using their lawmaking authority to play politics.”
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With the second veto on Friday, however, all bets seemed to be off.
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In fact, because the House never voted, he never got the chance to sign or veto anything.
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The worthy knight not being now alive to veto the project, a figure of him has been placed opposite the College in Edmund Street.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
It made me furious, too, to see my ambition nipped with the frost of a possible veto from Miss Smawl.
In Search of the Unknown|Robert W. Chambers
This protection was exercised mainly through the use of the veto power given to the tribunes.
The Two Great Republics: Rome and the United States|James Hamilton Lewis
And this repeal is demanded because a single State interposes her veto, and threatens resistance!
Select Speeches of Daniel Webster|Daniel Webster
To make it possible for the tribunes to give such protection, the veto had been granted to them.
The Two Great Republics: Rome and the United States|James Hamilton Lewis

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