Presidential Veto Essay

1.) As explained in these weeks required essays and also the Saylor text “American Government and politics in the Information Age” Presidential vetoes are when congress sends a bill to the White House for the president, and the current president of the United States, at the time, can “return it” without any objections. To understand further how the veto from the president works, it starts with the latin translation of the word which is “I forbid” adding to the serious tone of the president potentially “taking down” a bill that could have been potentially passed by him, with the majority of vetoes being successfully overridden. However, about four percent of vetos, according to the Saylor text, have been successfully overridden in part by Congressional overrides where “…with a two-thirds vote in each chamber, enabling the bill to become a law over the president’s objections” (Saylor 505).
2.) Passed in 1973, even though it was vetoed by former president Nixon the War Powers act “established” that a president must “consult” with the current congress of the time when engagement with a foreign comittemnt of troops and …show more content…
In discussing the Growth of Beuacracy, the Saylor text the term is decribed as the way to “govern large, complex societies” however, within the media ‘incompentence” is how it is described most often. The evolution of Federal Beuacracy is another part of how growth of beuacracy has came to be through the Spoils system and the Merit System. In all, the beuacray within our federal systems remains a contanst importance within our federal government, even though it is largely disliked by the media (Saylor