“John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!”- Quote by President Andrew Jackson about Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall

Line-Item Veto• A method of vetoing just PART of a bill and

allowing the rest of it to pass into law

• Only applies to SOME STATES (not Pennsylvania and not the United States Government)

• The line-item veto has been created to allow governors to eliminate wasteful spending that makes its way into bills

• Often, to get a bill passed, extra spending (sometimes on unrelated issues) is added to win votes of undecided lawmakers.

How a Line-Item Veto WorksWorks just like a regular veto

1. Bill goes through the lawmaking process

2. Once it arrives at the Governor’s desk, instead of vetoing the whole bill, he/she selects just the lines or sections of text he/she thinks are bad and simply vetoes them.

3. It then goes back to the House and Senate, where they can override the line-item vetoed sections by a 2/3 vote in each chamber

Line-Item Veto Practice• Instead of using a bill, we will use an

Amendment from the U.S. Constitution (Governors cannot line-item veto their state’s Constitution nor can Presidents or Governors actually line-item veto the U.S. Constitution)

• Use Wisconsin rules: DELETE ONLY any words, letters, spaces or punctuation marks.

• What is left will compress together to form new words with new meaning

• Be silly or serious, but keep it OK for school!!

If progress is movement toward making things better, then what’s Congress?

Question: Why was the line-item veto created?

Answer: To increase the power of the Governor to eliminate wasteful spending.

Question: What is one way in which is our practice exercise is similar to the actual line-item veto power?

Answer:

• Allows unwanted text to be deleted

• Did not allow for text to be moved around

Question: What are two ways in which our practice exercise is different from the actual line-item veto power?

Answer:• Cannot line-item veto constitutions• No line-item veto for federal power• MOST line-item vetoes do not allow for

Wisconsin rules: deleting words, letters, spaces, punctuation marks alone.

• Wasn’t limited to wasteful spending