Later termed by Andrew Jackson the “Pocket Veto,” the clause has been the subject of much controversy between the president and Congress. There is an ambiguity as to what kinds of adjournment ...

By warning of the threat oligarchy poses to the country, President Joe Biden tapped into a Democratic Party tradition begun in the mid-19th century.

Jackson vetoed it, dismantling the bank; this was the first time a president justified a veto on policy grounds, rather than on constitutionality. For much of the American public however ...

Andrew, then thirteen years old ... and he was the first president to use the pocket veto. In total, Jackson vetoed twelve bills. In 1836 a budget surplus of approximately 20 million dollars genuinely ...

that bills could be vetoed for policy and not just constitutional reasons. When South Carolina “nullified” a federal tariff, he sent troops to the border until it backed down. Jackson’s ...