Tag: VE
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Vested Rights
Vested Rights Not Included (Obligation of Contracts)The term "contracts" is used in the Contract Clause in its popular sense of an agreement of minds. The clause therefore does not protect vested rights that are not referable to such an agreement between the state and an individual, such a…
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Veto Power
The Veto Power (Legislative Process)The veto provisions, the Supreme Court has told us, serve two functions. On the one hand, they ensure that "the President shall have suitable opportunity to consider the bills presented to him. . . . It is to safeguard the President's opportunity that Par…