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8790. VETO, Abuse of.—

He (George
III.) has endeavored to pervert the exercise
of the kingly office in Virginia into a detes


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table and insupportable tyranny, by putting
his negative on laws the most wholesome and
necessary for the public good.—
Proposed Va. Constitution. Ford ed., ii, 8.
(June. 1776)