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'To Save the People from Themselves' from Part One - Legislatures and Legislation under the First American Constitutions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 September 2021
An “upper house” established as a check on a “lower” one, with members enjoying a longer tenure in office, and elected under more restrictive property-owning requirements, was not without precedent among the constitutions adopted in 1776. Entirely absent from the permanent frames of government adopted until that time, however, was any authority vested in a body outside the legislature to review and prevent its bills from becoming law. There had been some discussion in a number of states of restoring to governors a veto over legislative enactments, but none of the congresses and conventions, save that establishing South Carolina’s temporary constitution of 1776, had decided to do so.
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