Line Item Veto: Hearings Before the Committee on Rules and Administration, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, on S. 43 ... May 14, 20; June 20, 1985U.S. Government Printing Office, 1985 - 218 páginas |
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absolute veto action Allen Schick American American Enterprise Institute appropriations bills balanced budget bill or joint billion budget process Chadha CHAIRMAN CHARLES MCC checks and balances congressional constitutional amendment constitutionality continuing resolution David Stockman debt decision defense deficit Democrats dent enacted enrolling clerk expenditures federal spending Federalist fiscal FISHER Founders funds give the President Governor gress increase institutional interest item veto item veto authority joint resolution Judge Mikva judicial Judiciary legislative veto legislature line-item veto authority MACK MATTINGLY majority Mattingly bill members of Congress ment numbered sections ORNSTEIN override passed percent political President Reagan President's problem procedure programs projects proposal provisions qualified veto reduce Republican rescission rescission process responsibility rule SCHICK Senator EVANS Senator FORD Senator HATFIELD Senator MATTINGLY separate bills separation of powers Supreme Court tion U.S. Senate unnumbered paragraph veto power vote Washington White House
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Página 13 - Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the President of the United States; if he approves he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it.
Página 119 - Certainly the negro is not our equal in color, perhaps not in many other respects; still, in the right to put into his mouth the bread that his own hands have earned, he is the equal of every other man, white or black.
Página 120 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Página 21 - But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others.
Página 27 - Prominent on the surface of any case held to involve a political question is found a textually demonstrable constitutional commitment of the issue to a coordinate political department; or a lack of judicially discoverable and manageable standards for resolving it...
Página 28 - The preservation of a free Government requires not merely, that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained; but more especially that neither of them be suffered to overleap the great Barrier which defends the rights of the people.
Página 137 - Employer' includes any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee...
Página 114 - If they are incorporated into the constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those rights; they will be an impenetrable bulwark against every assumption of power in the legislative or executive; they will be naturally led to resist every encroachment upon rights expressly stipulated for in the constitution by the declaration of rights.
Página 120 - Deciding whether a matter has in any measure been committed by the Constitution to another branch of government, or whether the action of that branch exceeds whatever authority has been committed, is itself a delicate exercise in constitutional interpretation, and is a responsibility of this Court as ultimate interpreter of the Constitution.
Página 121 - I do not, however, object to the revision of it, and am quite willing that it be regarded hereafter as the law of this court, that its opinion upon the construction of the Constitution is always open to discussion when it is supposed to have been founded in error, and that its judicial authority should hereafter depend altogether on the force of the reasoning by which it is supported.