Parliament Act 1911 sufficient Liberal peers to overcome the then Conservative majority. The Act effectively removed the right of the House of Lords to veto money bills completely, and replaced it with a right of veto over other public bills with a maximum delay of two years (the Parliament Act 1949 reduced this to one). It also reduced the maximum term of a parliament from seven years to five. Until the Parliament Act 1911, there was no way to resolve disagreements between the two houses of Parliament except through the creation of additional peers by the monarch. Queen Anne had created twelve Tory
Line Item Veto Act of 1996 briefs. Judge Thomas Hogan of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia combined the cases and declared the law unconstitutional on February 12, 1998. This ruling was subsequently affirmed on June 25, 1998 by a 6–3 decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case "Clinton v. City of New York". Justices Breyer, Scalia, and O'Connor dissented. The ruling has been criticized by some legal scholars. Line Item Veto Act of 1996 The Line Item Veto Act of 1996 was a federal law of the United States that granted the President the power to