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Many members of Congress wanted the president to have line-item veto power, or the ability to veto just single line items, or small parts, of a larger bill.
許多國會議員都希望總統擁有單項否決權，或能夠對整部法案的單項或一小部分進行否決。
In 1996, Congress passed a bill called the Line Item Veto Act of 1996.
1996年，國會通過了《單項否決權法》，
President Bill Clinton signed it and it became a law.
經比爾·克林頓總統簽署成為法律。
With this law, the president could veto individual parts of appropriation bills, or bills about how the government should spend its money.
由于有這樣的法律，總統就能否決撥款法案的個別部分，或者政府應該如何花錢的法案。
President Clinton used this power a few times.
克林頓總統使用過幾次這樣的權力。
However, the members of Congress who didn't like this law thought that it was unconstitutional, or went against the United States' most important legal document, the Constitution.
然而，國會中反對這項法律的議員認為這是違憲的，或者違反了美國最重要的法律文件——憲法。
The issue was presented to the Supreme Court, the most powerful court in the US., which decided that the line-item veto was unconstitutional.
該問題被呈送到了最高法院，美國權力最大的法院，它認為單項否決權是違憲的
The Supreme Court believed that the way the Constitution is written, the president must approve or veto whole bills and not just parts of them.
最高法院判定，依據憲法，總統必須批準或否決整個法案而不是其中的一部分。
So in 1998 the Line Item Veto Act was repealed (or taken away so that it was not a law anymore).
因此，1998年《單項否決權法》被廢除了（或被取消了，這樣它就不再是法律了）。
President Clinton was the only president who was ever able to make a line-item veto.
克林頓總統是唯一一位使用過單項否決權的總統。
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