Talk:Veto
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[edit] U.S. state governor veto
It would be nice if we could verify whether or not all US state's governors have veto power so that we could remove the unprofessional looking "perhaps all" phrase from the article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.203.226.193 (talk • contribs) 04:23, 23 February 2005.
- This is no longer in the article. Governors can veto, though they may be some particular nuances per state. -- Centrx 23:06, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Switzerland
- In Switzerland, the government cannot stop legislation by itself, but 50'000 voters or eight cantons can demand that a law enacted or certain treaties ratified by the Federal Assembly be made subject to a binding popular referendum. When this constitutional rule was introduced in the 19th century, it was widely referred to as the "people's veto".
Is this 50k figure the same as since the introduction? Or has it been changed since then. Either way it's an interesting point that needs to be clarified. 50k in the 19th century would have presumably been a much larger percentage of the population and therefore likely a lot harder to achieve just to get the referendum (I guess it would have been at least 10% of the population, probably more)... Nil Einne 14:41, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Papal Veto
Can there be an entry for the veto used in papal elections - last persons so affected Mariano Cardinal Rampolla and Pius X - there were a number of others. Jackiespeel 18:22, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
- I don't really know if that fits the article. This article is about heads of state vetoing legislation. Otherwise any time a ruler has said "no" to an idea, that would be considered a veto under this article. Right? --Hyphen5 16:21, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Portugal
In Portugal, the president has veto powers in the following cenario:
If by any chance a law is proposed by the ruling party, that violates (in the President's view) the Portuguese Constitution, he/she has the power to issue a veto on that law, thereby forbidding it. However, the government can still make an appeal to a special court, the "Constitutional court", made by a body of judges, that together issue a verdict approving or rejecting the president's decision. --Netshark 09:16, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
- So long as you reference it, you should include that. --Hyphen5 16:21, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Two things
1. I am tempted to delete that section about how the presidential veto is "an irony and a paradox". Is that paragraph really necessary? It moves from exposition to analysis. Isn't it kind of unencyclopedic? At the very least, it's unsourced. --Hyphen5 16:19, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
2. In the introductory paragraphs, we mention the origin of the veto had something to do with the Roman Senate. Shouldn't we expand upon that in its own section? Does anyone have any details about that? --Hyphen5 16:25, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
- Here there is some information about them.--FAR 11:15, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Delaying veto
there is the third kind of veto - dalaying veto. If veto is set by any party, it can not be overruled by anyone else, but the legislation has to be taken off the agenda and adopted later - after the disagreeing parties have come to a consensus.
[edit] Australia
I added a heap of stuff about veto powers in Australia. I am an Aussie, and I wanted to encourage info about other Commonwealth countries, so the article doesn't look umbalanced (and about other countries too, of course). I think this is a neat article. There are lots of interesting and strange examples of the veto being used by different officers of state and legislatures. For example, when King Badouin refused to assent to the Belgian abortion act, and was declared unfit to rule so the act could pass. We should try and find examples like that. Cheers all!--Gazzster 04:18, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
