The Veto Power In The Several States

Author : Josiah H. Benton
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ISBN 13 : 9781330823712
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book The Veto Power in the United States written by Josiah H. Benton and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Veto Power in the United States: What Is It? I regard it as my duty to the commonwealth, and to the maintenance of a wholesome public sentiment in behalf of legislation which shall be above suspicion, to act upon the reports made by these committees and adopted by their respective houses, and to strike emphatically at the evil thus unearthed. Not to do so is to excuse and encourage a monstrously bad and corrupting practice. I believe that the legislature, which had committed itself to the bill before exposure of the methods of its promotion, will agree with me that it is better that the executive, approaching it for the first time and finding it tainted with offensive furtherances, should veto it. I cannot doubt, too, that on reflection the committee which seeks division, and to which we look for so many of the elements of good-citizenship, will gladly sacrifice, or at least delay, any present convenience for the sake of an emphatic lesson in the public behalf. If, as seems to be true, both sides have been guilty (which almost makes me sympathize with the judge who wanted to decide against both parties), so much the worse; two wrongs do not make a right. It is a just as well as an equitable maxim, that those on whom is the burden of making out a case shall come with clean hands, and not seek to excuse the lack of them on the ground that an opponent's are soiled. It seems a fitting opportunity to enforce the principle that, in order to ensure legislation, the thing to do is to show a good case on its merits; and that it is not only not necessary, but detrimental, to rely on pecuniary influences such as have been disclosed in the committee's reports. I am sure that the pernicious system therein set forth is offensive to nobody so much as to the members of the legislature, and that you will heartily co-operate with me in hitting it a blow in the interest of more decent methods, and in furtherance of the suggestion in your own reports on the subject to which I call attention. Your committee closes its report with these words: "Legislation cannot be pure unless free and untrammelled by insidious influences. These influences, however, wherever or by whomsoever exerted, should be and must he emphatically and sternly condemned." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.