The Historic Gettysburg Address. On the morning of November 19, Everett delivered his two-hour oration (from memory) on the Battle of Gettysburg and its significance, and the orchestra played a hymn composed for the occasion by B.B. French. Lincoln then rose to the podium and addressed the crowd of some 15,000 people.
The line-item veto gave the president the power to veto specific parts of an appropriations bill. This power, however, was short lived and only lasted from 1996 until 1998 after it was declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
veto - Legal Definition. 1  The power of one branch of government to prohibit a certain action by another; for example, the chief executiveâs right to refuse to sign a legislature-passed bill into law.  The act of refusing or canceling the act of another or the passage of a law.