suspensive veto

The governor had a sort of suspensive veto.

The suspensive veto was therefore adopted.

Lafayette, who imagined himself to be copying the American constitution, proposed that the king should have a suspensive veto.

The Directory had no veto; Louis XVI. had with difficulty obtained a merely suspensive veto, which was overridden in the event of three legislatures successively voting against it.

The new French constitution allowed no privileged orders, no parliamentary ministry, no power of dissolution, and only a suspensive veto.