Definitions for: Pocket Veto

[n] indirect veto of legislation by refusing to sign it

Webster (1913) Definition: Pocket veto
The retention by the President of the United States of a bill
unsigned so that it does not become a law, in virtue of the
following constitutional provision (Const. Art. I., sec. 7,
cl. 2): ``If any bill shall not be returned by the President
within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been
presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as
if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment
prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law.''
Also, an analogous retention of a bill by a State governor.

See Also: veto

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