The Council of Revision was composed by "the Governor, the Chancellor, and the Justices of the Supreme Court, or any two of them".
The bill could then be enacted as law, over the objections of the council, by a two-thirds majority in each house of the legislature.
At the time of its abolition, the members were Governor DeWitt Clinton, Chancellor James Kent, Chief Justice Ambrose Spencer, and Associated Justices Joseph C. Yates, Jonas Platt, William W. Van Ness and John Woodworth.
Constitutional Convention in 1787, the Virginia Plan contained a similar Council of Revision for the national government.
[citation needed] Instead, the veto power was granted to the President as suggested by Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No.