Excerpt from Line Item Veto; The President's Constitutional Authority: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session The only Federalist speaking in a ratifying convention who addressed the subject was Governor James Bowdoin of Massachusetts. Bowdoin spoke in favor of the veto in such a way as to suggest that he understood it to be a power of revision rrnd. Therefore. A selective power. He did not say so explicitly. But it is clear in light of the Massachusetts experience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.