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8795. VETO, Effects of non-use.—

The
non-user of his negative begins already to
excite a belief that no President will ever
venture to use it; and has, consequently, begotten
a desire to raise up barriers in the
State legislatures against Congress, throwing
off the control of the Constitution.—
Opinion on Apportionment Bill. Washington ed. vii, 601. Ford ed., v, 500.
(1792)