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Interlineation
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in·ter·line 1  (ntr-ln)
tr.v. in·ter·lined, in·ter·lin·ing, in·ter·lines
To insert between printed or written lines.
inter·line·ation (-ln-shn) n.
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If a part of a law doesn't jibe with the president's notion of his constitutional role, then rather than veto a bill and throw the baby out with the bath water, the president interlineates his own language into the bill, thus directing the bureaucrats tasked with implementing the provisions of the law to do so according to the president's definition of "constitutional," rather than according to the express will of the people as manifested through the actions of their elected representatives.
Presidential power grab: President Bush has been quietly attaching ... by Wolverton, Joe, II / The New American
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