suspensory veto

The Ancients had a suspensory veto, but no initiative in legislation.

The bourgeoisie, conscious of their opportunity, decided for a single chamber against the will of the noblesse; against that of the king they declared it permanent, and, if they accorded him a suspensory veto, this was only in order to guard them against the extreme assertion of popular rights.

Dr. Dennett thereupon asked for a "suspensory veto" on financial proposals.

He would reduce the powers of the Senate to the undignified status abhorred by the British Lords; that is, he would make it an empty debating chamber with a suspensory veto whereby any measure passed three times by the Canadian House of Commons would become the land's law no matter what the Senate thought about it.

He advocated the suspensory veto, and the establishment of trial by jury in civil causes, but voted with the Left against the system of two chambers.