Constitution > Article I > Section 7
Presentment Clause
Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.
Related Resources
- United States Constitution
The Constitution of the United States.
- Thomas Lloyd's Notes of the Pennsylvania Ratification Convention
- Thomas Lloyd's Notes of the Pennsylvania Ratification Convention
- Response to Elbridge Gerry's Objections by Rufus King and Nathaniel Gorham · recipient: Nathaniel Gorham
- Remarks on Jefferson's Draft of a Constitution by James Madison
- Notes on debates by John Lansing
- North Carolina Ratification Convention Debates
- John McKesson's Notes of the New York Ratification Convention Debates
- James Wilsons' Notes of the Pennsylvania Ratification Convention
- James Madison on the Pinckney Plan
- Fabius VIII
- Constitution of South Carolina
- Constitution of Massachusetts
- Constitution of Maryland
- Cato IV
- A Landholder V