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US Constitution: how a bill becomes law

Author: Constitutional Convention Year: 1787 Length: 382 characters Difficulty: easy Public domain

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Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the President of the United States: If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it.

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This is the veto clause. A bill goes to the president, who signs it or returns it with objections to the chamber where it began. Congress can still pass the bill over those objections with two thirds in each chamber. George Washington returned only two bills in eight years.

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This is the veto clause. A bill goes to the president, who signs it or returns it with objections to the chamber where it began. Congress can still pass the bill over those objections with two thirds in each chamber. George Washington returned only two bills in eight years.

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A colon sits in the middle of the sentence and capitals keep coming, so punctuation and Shift alternate all the way through.

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