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 definition. The power of a president or governor to reject a bill proposed by a legislature by refusing to sign it into law. The president or governor actually writes the word veto (Latin for âI forbidâ) on the bill and sends it back to the legislature with a statement of his or her objections.