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Best general references: Smith's Constitutional Manual, p. 486; Story's Commentaries, II, 296; Curtis on the Constitution, II., 262; Bryce's American Commonwealth...
...parliamentary law: (a) No business can be transacted if the attention of the house is called to the fact that a quorum is not present.- Lalors Cyclopaedia of Political Science, III, 88. (b) The fact of a quorum or of no quorum is settled by the record-Smith's Manual, 455; House Journal, 1st session, 44th congress, p. 1078. (c) The constitutional idea of a quorum implies not the visible presence, but the judgment and voted of the members-Thomas B. Reed in Congressional Record, vol X., part...
...ruling is in perfect accord with the recognized ruling of parliamentary procedures-Cushing's Elem. of Parliamentary Law, S 261, $69, 370, 390, 404, 406; Crocker's Procedure, "Quorums;" Parl. Reg. XII. 461; May's Parl. Law, S273-278; Hatsell's Precedents 187; Jefferson's Manual, p. 189. 4 Elliot's Debates, pp. 117, 130; Madison's papers, p, 405; Public Opinion, February...
...Adam's "Manual of Historical Literature...
...Adam's "Manual of Historical Literature...