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yes

2006-06-07 19:49:04 · answer #1 · answered by nickipettis 7 · 0 0

yes and forever....


Veto in parliamentary government, the executive power, as that of the president of the United States, to abrogate or kill a measure that has already been passed by a legislative body. The word veto is a Latin term that means “I forbid.”

According to Article 1, Section 7, of the U.S. Constitution, the president has only limited veto authority since negation of a legislative act can be overridden by a two-thirds majority in both houses of Congress. A presidential veto, unlike that in many states, is comprehensive, applying to all parts of a bill, and the president must communicate to Congress the reasons for a veto. In 1996 Congress passed the Line-Item Veto Act, which gave the president the power to veto individual items in funding or tax bills. In 1998, however, the Supreme Court ruled that the act was unconstitutional. In the case of a so-called pocket veto, sometimes used for political reasons, a bill fails to become law when the president does not sign it and the Congress happens to adjourn within a ten-day period after its submission to the chief executive. On the other hand, if Congress remains in session and does not receive the unsigned bill from the president within that time, the measure becomes law. The great majority of presidential vetoes throughout American history have not been overridden. For example, of the some 600 vetoes handed down by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s and '40s, only 9 were overridden by Congress.

The governors of most states in the U.S. have veto powers, which in some cases can be overruled by a simple majority rather than two-thirds of their legislatures. The monarch of Great Britain has long had putative absolute veto power, but this prerogative has not been exercised since 1708. In the Security Council of the United Nations (see Security Council, United Nations), each of the five permanent members—France, the United Kingdom, China, Russia, and the U.S.—has veto power over all substantive matters.

2006-06-07 20:04:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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2016-12-06 12:04:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Yes. They were recently talking about adding new counties for post-cold war regional balance. Japan was mentioned, I think South Africa, about ten, but they couldn't decide which or how many to add, so like always they talked forever & did nothing. Who cares anyway, the UN is powerless but for the support it gets from those five perm mbrs of the security council.

2006-06-07 20:38:18 · answer #4 · answered by djack 5 · 0 0

Yes they do, but only because there has been no movement to make the security council reflect the modern political landscape. Many have agreed that Japan, India and Pakistan should be included on the permanent council.

(Japan because it's an economic power-house, Pakistan because it has nuclear weapons and India, since it has both those things plus a billion inhabitants!)

2006-06-07 20:25:53 · answer #5 · answered by spfxi 2 · 0 0

Yes.

2006-06-07 19:49:35 · answer #6 · answered by shoshidad 5 · 0 0

yes. they are the 5 permanent members of the UN security councel.

2006-06-07 19:50:10 · answer #7 · answered by nuwas 1 · 0 0

yes, it's because we won the 2nd World War.

2006-06-07 20:33:52 · answer #8 · answered by MP US Army 7 · 0 0

Yes they do since 1945....

2006-06-07 19:51:50 · answer #9 · answered by Brookey 3 · 0 0

yes the r havin

2006-06-07 19:51:16 · answer #10 · answered by naga 1 · 0 0

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