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liberum veto: free veto: An aspect of a unanimous voting system, whereby any member can end discussion on a proposed law. lingua franca: the Frankish language A language common to an area that is spoken by all, even if not their mother tongue.
word for word and letter by letter: verbi divini minister: servant of the Divine Word: A phrase denoting a priest. Cf. "Verbum Dei" infra. verbi gratia (v. gr. or v. g.) for example: Literally, "for the sake of a word". Verbum Dei: Word of God: See religious text. Verbum Domini lucerna pedibus nostris: The word of the Lord [is] a light for our feet
The veto must be adopted by overall majority". [121] A Senate veto can be overridden by an absolute majority vote of the Congress of Deputies. [122] In addition, the government can block a bill before passage if it entails government spending or loss of revenue. [123] This prerogative is commonly called veto presupuestario ("budget veto"). [124
Sejm session at the Royal Castle, Warsaw, 1622. The liberum veto (Latin for "free veto" [a]) was a parliamentary device in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.It was a form of unanimity voting rule that allowed any member of the Sejm (legislature) to force an immediate end to the current session and to nullify any legislation that had already been passed at the session by shouting either ...
Jus exclusivae (Latin for "right of exclusion"; sometimes called the papal veto) was the right claimed by several Catholic monarchs of Europe to veto a candidate for the papacy.
In Classical Latin, "I arrange". Motto of the State of Maine, United States; based on a comparison of the State to the star Polaris. dis aliter visum: It seemed otherwise to the gods: In other words, the gods have ideas different from those of mortals, and so events do not always occur in the way persons wish them to. Cf. Virgil, Aeneid, 2: 428 ...
Threats of veto against a bill or its general unpopularity among the people usually led to the bill's withdrawal. [11] If a bill was passed ( rogatio lata est ), it became a law ( lex ) after the presiding magistrate made a formal announcement ( renuntiatio ) of the assembly's decision.
Translated into Latin from Baudelaire's L'art pour l'art. Motto of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. While symmetrical for the logo of MGM, the better word order in Latin is "Ars artis gratia". ars longa, vita brevis: art is long, life is short: Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1, translating a phrase of Hippocrates that is often used out of context. The "art ...