who was the 1st president to cast a veto?
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George Washington became the first U.S. president to exercise a veto on April 5, 1792. He vetoed a bill outlining a new apportionment formula submitted by Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson. Washington thought Jefferson's original formula gave the northern states an unfair advantage. The veto was sustained by Congress and a rewritten version of the bill was later signed by Washington. Washington only used the veto one more time during his term in office.
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George Washington. He defined the Presidency and was the first (and so far only) military revolution leader to voluntarily limit his power to less than what he was offered.
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Samuel Huntington of Connecticut was the first true President although he was president under the articles of confederation. george washington is the first president under the constitution. Huntington was the first to hold the title President of the United States and congress assembled. He previously held the title of President of the continental congress until the articles or confederation were ratified when he adopted the new title and the united states actually adopted a form of government.
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Clinton did something (with a Republican Congress, mind you) that Bush will never be able to do - balance a budget. Bush has NEVER vetoes a single spending bill that has come across his desk. Dems may be tax-and-spend, but Republicans are cut taxes-and-spend even more. Which is worse? Gotta go with Clinton on this one. He has ineffectual as a Commander-in-Chief but he wasn't afraid to break out the red veto stamp when it was needed.
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They're both very important.  When a bill is brought to Congress, it first must be brought through the House.  If it is approved by the House, it is passed up to the Senate for approval and then the President ultimately has the power to veto it.  If either the House or the Senate is balanced in a certain direction by either a majority of Democrats or Republicans, it determines greatly what type of bills get passed and turned down.
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Harry Truman was the first.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttp://www.trumanlibrary.org/trivia/turkey.htm
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It really depends.  A John Hanson was elected President under the Articles of Confederation.  George Washington was elected President under the new Constitution that was drafted years later.   Washington himself called Hanson the President of the United States.  So yes a man named Hanson was indeed the first President of the United States.
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John Hanson was the first president after the Treaty of Paris under Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union. George Washington was the first president under the Constitution.
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The eighth President of the United States was Martin Van Buren was the 8th president of the United States (1837-1841) and the first president born after the United States won its independence. He was regarded by his contemporaries as such a wily and artful politician that they dubbed him the “Little.
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The president is the peoples representative.  If Congress tries to become too powerful, he has the ability to veto legislation and force them to pass it with a 2/3rds vote instead of a simple majority.
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Andrew Jackson. \n\nOur president was illiterate, and when having to sign on a bill, he would have to have someone approve it in writing for him. \n\nOne day, the person hired to do it was unavailable, and when he signed the document he wrote "OLL KORRECT" which is how he though all correct was spelled, and ever since OK has been adapted as an all correct statement.
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John Hanson was the REAL first president of the US.\nHe served in that office from November 5, 1781 until November 3, 1782. He was the first President to serve a full term after the full ratification of the Articles of Confederation. Six other presidents were elected after him - Elias Boudinot (1783), Thomas Mifflin (1784), Richard Henry Lee (1785), Nathan Gorman (1786), Arthur St. Clair (1787), and Cyrus Griffin (1788) - all prior to George Washington taking office.
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Veto:\n\nThe word 'veto' comes from Latin and literally means I forbid. It is used to denote that a certain party has the right unilaterally to stop a certain piece of legislation. A veto thus gives unlimited power to stop changes, but not to adopt them.\n\nThe veto originated with the Roman tribunes who had the power to unilaterally refuse legislation passed by the Roman Senate.\n\nKudos:\n\nKudos (IPA: ['kü-"däs], ['kju:dɒs], from the Greek κύδος kydos (literally "that which is heard of") means fame and renown resulting from an act or achievement; by extension is often used as a praising remark. It entered English as British university slang in the early 1800s.
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The first president of the United States of America was George Washington, who took office on April 30, 1789, following the ratification of the United States Constitution.\n\nPrevious to this, the first presidents of the various congresses were:\n\nFirst Continental Congress: Peyton Randolph, September 5, 1774\n\nSecond Continental Congress: Peyton Randolph, May 10, 1775\n\nUnited States in Congress Assembled: Samuel Huntington, March 1, 1781
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he can veto once\ncongress gives the bill to the president if he says yes, the bill becomes a law\nif he says no, it is vetoed and goes back to congress.\nthere they can revise and do whatever. if they don't revise, i think if 2/3s of congress votes yes, the veto is overrided and the bill becomes a law
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Under the current system, the US Constitution, the first president was George Washington. There was a government in place before that known as the Articles of Confederation. Under that system, the president was not the chief executive that he is today. Under the Articles of Confederation the president's full title was "President of the United States in Congress Assembled." The first person to hold that title was Samuel Huntington. Before that, we had the First Continental Congress, which did have a president as well. The first president of the First Contention Congress was Peyton Randolph. He was also the first president of the Second Contention Congress. The Continental Congress(es) were not intended to be permanent, they were a sort of revolutionary government. There is some confusion about all of this and some people argue that John Hanson was the first President of The United States. But I do not have the time to go into why that is so; He was the 3rd president under the Articles of Confederation.
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The first president to wear a beard was Abraham Lincoln.