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The following excerpt is from a speech by U.S. Senator Daniel Webster expressing opposition to a veto by President Andrew Jackson in 1832:
“Mr. President, no one will deny the high importance of the subject now before us. Congress, after full deliberation and discussion, has passed a bill, by decisive majorities, in both houses, for extending the duration of the Bank of the United States. It has not adopted this measure until its attention had been called to the subject, in three successive annual messages of the President. The bill having been thus passed by both houses, and having been duly presented to the President, instead of signing and approving it, he has returned it with objections.”
It takes a majority of _____ in both chambers of Congress to override a presidential veto.
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Explanation
This illustrates the system of checks and balances embedded in the U.S. Constitution. While the Constitution grants the President the power to reject proposed laws, this veto can be overturned if both the House of Representatives and the Senate secure a majority vote of two-thirds.
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